Is using stealth an exploit?

[kandrathe]

What absolute rubbish!

It circumvents the spirit of the instance in the same way that outflanking the French Maginot Line circumvented the spirit of war

There is nothing wrong with using obvious class features. It's like calling healing an exploit because really people can't recover from injuries easily so healing circumvents the spirit of armed conflict

To me the spirit of the instance is what the OP mentioned: to have fun. That they are having fun and walking off with phat lewt is gravy
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I hope you know I was implying "to each their own". The instance is designed to present challenges for a team, and if this team feels that sneaking past the mobs is a challenge then "to each their own". But, I doubt that the designers intended sections of high level instances to be circumvented in that manner. Sure, there are places to jump down and skip sections, and I think that non-linearity was designed in to allow a redo of a portion that maybe someone missed. He is posting here because he senses the ambiguity, and as he states, so does his guild.

I'm just pointing out the danger of trivializing an instance run to what he had claimed was 30 minutes. If it is as challenging, then why the focus on speed? This would then lead to my next logical conclusion that someone, maybe not them, would then consider grinding the bosses only, just as some other games we know have been.