Creative use of mechanic, or exploit

[Suvega]

Correct. The exploit wasn't the way it was done -- it was the end results achieved (XP).

If you were to find a new way to get the same XP out of Zolo, as was done pre-patch, that would be the exploit. I'm not saying killing (or grinding) Zolo was the exploit -- but the massive amount of XP gained for the minor amount of effort (I hear many people claiming the important part to Zolo is jumping often so that your other characters don't go AFK). Don't pick on semantics -- you know I've never had a problem with Zolo pre-nerf, but just post-nerf the same result should not be achievable without expecting retribution from blizzard. Nobody did Zolo in that fashion "just because I wanted to see the encounter". They did it because of the massive amount of XP gained.

The exploit of Zolo was the advantage of XP per hour per effort. Not the encounter itself.

Missed that ^_^ This is pretty much it :P (from my POV)

My point basically is, everyone who was doing it, knew it wasn't legitimte. They knew it was going to be hotfixed, just a matter of time. The fact that they chose to hotfix over ban is just their views now, not in the future. Finding interesting tactics to get an upperhand in the game (protip: thats the defintion of exploit), is not a recommended hobby when wanting to keep your account. People who try to "convince" us that it was legitimate, or that they never thought it was going to be fixed, are either living in a fantasy world, or are trying to convince themselves