I do hate that it was easily abused like that. The first night before they patched it I logged in, did maybe one run just to get the cluster. I went in again and got a second cluster. After that I just stored it and logged off for the evening and didn't log in until I had found it was indeed an exploit and everyone already took advantage of it. Now equipment we spent hours working to get is being handed out like candy. Suppose I sort of only have myself to blame that I never abused it but at the same time I never abused the Garuda exploit either. Equipment I have I earned through hard work and even if it's not up there like people who have darklight, relics, or whatnot I'm still happy with it.

I leveled up LTW just to make some gryphonskin gear, the moment I finally made a pair of gryphonskin gloves from scratch using materials I had spent my time farming I was happy and it felt like all that effort paid off.