Quote Originally Posted by Bear View Post
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.
From a design perspective, a hard damage check is better than a soft damage check with an inconvenient exploit to circumvent it. It's good that they eventually realized this.