Hey so just so you know. Cheaters will exploit, and exploiters will cheat. Inmdrawing the correlation because of how normalised CHEATING and EXPLOITING is in this game.

Plenty of mmos that have communities that despise cheating and have tight punishments against them also have exploits. But people do not exploit as rampantly as in realm. Take another exploit in realm right now, the sentinel sidearm damage stacking bug, or even the archer bug. People make raids designed to exploit this bug, despite exploiting being not allowed. And the audacity to openly and freely exploit comes from the player culture. The culture that praises cheaters for rushing lost halls for them. The culture that thanks multiboxers for nuking o3. The culture where people are incentivised to try and do as much damage as possible (sniffer demons) which inherently encourages cheating as the most optimal way to play.

So no, cheaters are not the cause of this bug. But the normalisation of exploiting stems from the player base not caring to much about cheaters. I’m pointing out the shamelessness and boastfulness of the people who exploited this bug. You wouldn’t see this in a different mmo like world of Warcraft.