So this morning I was ganked in IF as expected by a couple horde goons. In our little fight i noticed that one of them was waving at the guards as he was running. Funny thing is they started to wave back. Full stop for a couple sec and then continued chasing.
I then went to Ogri to test the same thing. I found that if you wave about 3 times or so they guard will wave back and waste about 1-3 autos worth of time waving and resetting from the wave. In/out of combat doesnt matter. Guard will just stop hitting you to wave.
Just because it was in vanilla doesnt mean its not a bug. Having guards just stop attacking is kinda broken. Kinda tired of being ganked every morning and having the guards do nothing.
What im saying is it was a well known thing in vanilla. Blizz has intentionally left things in the game that were bugs. Do i feel it gives an unfair advantage - yes. Report those players abusing it for ‘zone disruption’ - under the same heading as safespotting.