Quote Originally Posted by sanahtlig View Post
Mechanics like this just reiterate to me that the developers have no idea what they're doing.
Or maybe, it's their cue that players need to start upping their game if they wanna stay in high level content. You should be glad that you can actually cheese out these what would otherwise be a brick wall for those who fail the gear check, because these same devs are perfectly happy to dish out contents with permanent buff / debuff and even ones that are undispellable / uncleansable.