So once upon a time, when LFR first came out for Dragon Soul in Cata it was also the first time loot could be traded by players to each other without a GM involvement. Some “mythic” raiding tryhards (actual mythic as a difficulty setting didn’t exist yet) found a bug that basically allowed them to gear up their mains by having people present for the boss pull, hearth out, drop group, and maybe even log out (I don’t remember all the particulars). The rest of the team would finish the boss and leave the raid and trade any of the juicy tier pieces (because DS tier was insane especially for tanks that even LFR tier was “mandatory”) while the bug prevented the degenerate player from being saved to the boss…allowing them to also run and try again…and again…and again…and again.
Thing is, certain guilds COLLUDED to keep the bug unreported so they had a better chance at beating other guilds who didn’t know about it and come live, it was quickly abused and caused quite the fuss at the time. Blizzard ended up taking a long time but ultimately banned the cheaters for 8 days costing those who exploited a week of progression…
Do you think it was “normal and expected gameplay” to pull a boss, hearth out, drop group, and/or log out until the boss is dead and the saved flag is applied just to be traded the drops? Or do you think that is a deliberate and intentional effort to undermine the obviously intentional way the system was designed to work?
The people abusing the bug are not innocent little doe-eyed lambs. These are largely people who are tryhards intentionally trying to push the boundaries and find cracks in the system to give themselves a competitive edge. Common sense applies here. If you know you got a cooldown and you’re finding ways to circumvent that cooldown without any logical ingame reasons for it (like your elemental overload ability which tells you that mining nodes reduces the cooldown) then you’re cheating. Plain and simple.
The whole mantra of “exploit early and exploit often” rings true because Blizzard historically has been VERY lax on cheaters and ESPECIALLY the mythic raiding tryhard community. The example I gave about in DS should have absolutely 100% led to perma bans and account closures. Like GTFO you are no longer welcome in the game or community anymore. Go be a no life cheating degenerate somewhere else.