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Referring to the safe-spot, according to the article in WoWWiki, Blizzard hasn't given any indication that it is an exploit, so if it's there and if it works I'm probably going to use it in the future *shrug*
Incidentally, this is exactly the same argument given by people who supported the old Razorgore exploit. If you aren't familiar with the mob, a brief review;
Razorgore was the first boss in Blackwing Lair. The way his encounter worked is that you would have one player click on an orb to Mind Control him. He had several abilities, the most important of which was one that you could use to break an "egg" scattered around his boss area. Until all eggs were destroyed Orc NPCs would continually spawn and attack Razorgore - the players had to protect Razorgore until all of the eggs were gone. If Razorgore died before the eggs were gone (either by players just attempting to kill him or similar) then he would nuke the entire zone and despawn, rather than leaving loot behind or opening the way forward to the next boss... which meant that you had to deal with the adds, either by kiting them or killing them all, until all the eggs were down. Once the eggs were gone the NPCs would all run away and Razorgore would reset to full health (and stop being able to be MC'd), at which point you could kill him.
The entire challenge of the fight involved dealing with Phase 1; unless your entire raid was dead (and even then) if you could push him into Phase 2 you'd pretty much already won, as his damage is trivial and easily dealt with.
Now, certain players discovered that if you cast Divine Intervention on Razorgore while he was Mind Controlled he would instantly 'reset'... but _all_ of the eggs would despawn. Your entire raid would also die, but they could either be waiting outside the zone or you could just rez them up and pull Razorgore without having to deal with phase 1. This removed the entire challenge of the fight and turned what should have been something of a teamwork building exercise into a complete joke (incidentally, this tended to backfire as guild's had no previous experience with any real challenges as they moved into Vaelstrasz. Whoops.)
At the time, the same arguments were made for it being a 'legit' strategy... that there hadn't been any specific Blizzard comment stating that skipping the entire phase 1 was an exploit, so clearly it wasn't! And the argument was
just as retarded as arguing that using safe spots on Prince isn't an exploit.
And that is what I meant with the common sense comment. You may not ever get in trouble for it, but that doesn't stop it from a) being incredibly cheesy, b) being an exploit, and c) making you an idiot... especially if you try to rationalize it that way.
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 3:26pm by RPZip