No gray area here. I've made this comparison before, in fact, you probably remember it Wolf... were all the BLMs on this server circumventing game mechanics because magic was dealing more damage than it should in general? No.

Stuff that is being worked on that is widespread and not particularly exploitable: not circumventing. For all intents and purposes, those -are- the game mechanics (intended at one point just so stuff works, unintended in the long term). Examples: magic a year ago, silencing/sleeping many monsters that should be immune, cure 5 doesn't generate enmity if you don't have any enmity, PLD's old insane block rate with aegis, TH, dynamis, etc... Stuff that happened to work a bit off because nas prioritized it working before working correctly.

Particular, specific, powerful uses due to it's unfixed status (never intended to work this way): circumventing. Examples: meteorite a few weeks ago, blue magic on bulls during the event, mazurka not dropping in combat, dualbox HELM, killing mobs from inside terrain so you're unreachable. Stuff not meant to ever work that way.

rmackner, things are always getting fixed. It's natural that the people who got to do stuff that was a bit broken end up continuing to play - everyone on the server would be banned otherwise. Even you now are benefiting from things you don't know could be fixed in the future. The line is very clear for nas.