[quote='Hachoo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=160137 #post160137]LOL I'm hardly the first person to post this. The first 2-3 guides posted here for the Nexus specifically mention this tactic. Also many other sites like thottbot, etc, list this as a tactic. I'm pretty sure blizzard isn't banning people for this :P Its just clever use of physics, its not like its exploiting an actual game bug for profit.[/quote]

Nobody got banned for utilizing the "safety corner" on Heigan. But an exploit, bannable or not, is still an exploit. The fight's primary mechanic is the dance across the room, and if you compensate for raid members' abilities (or lack thereof) to do the simple back and forth dance and utilize the "safety corner" exploit to get the Heigan achievement, it's not exactly something to be proud of.

It was nerfed, by the way, but here's some more clear exploits that didn't result (afaik) in bans:
Standing outside the room on Prince (fix: added closing doors)
Exploiting terrain: standing on a pillar to avoid/ignore infernals on Prince
Putting the whole raid on a platform for Mandokir to evade the raptor
Kiting the mammoth out so he resets in mammoth form and never "transforms" for [url='http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2040']Less-rabi[/url] (fixed)

There's likely more, but I only hear so much so this is what I can recall off the top of my head. Suvega and I were in a ZG pug pre-BC that wanted to evade bug the raptor, and we actually left the raid.


An exploit doesn't have to be bannable for it to be an exploit. There's "creative use of game mechanics" and there's "avoiding game mechanics".

I think if you want to claim that you "killed a boss", you have to have defeated all of his mechanics. If Suvega and I had killed Prince with any of the above exploits, I wouldn't have considered that an achievement and, in fact, I'd have been ashamed that I had to use an exploit as my first kill. Instead, we toughed it out and did it the right way, experiencing all of Prince's game mechanics. We did it, and I can honestly be 100% proud of it.

I'm not saying you should feel guilty if you honestly feel it's not an exploit -- that's up to your judgement, but I'm just saying as a 3rd party, anything that causes you to avoid intended game mechanics runs a fine line between "creative game mechanics" and "exploit by avoiding game mechanics". And, like anything "gray area", I wouldn't recommend utilizing it until you're sure that it's OK.


EDIT: How the heck did this end up in my "new posts" list? Oh, well. I bumped a dusty thread. >.<