How to report exploits and broken mechanics in dungeons?

Soarora · August 6

Obviously I can’t post them on the forums but I don’t think reporting with /bug in game did anything (not like I’ve tried to see but it wasn’t in any patch notes) and historically sending a video gets you banned because it shows you exploited. So… genuinely, how do I report these? I have a handful I’d like to make ZOS aware of as these exploitations and broken mechanics have become or are becoming the defacto strategy which feels very… illegal to me and makes me sad to see so much of a fight just get skipped. (To be clear, I try my best to avoid groups that do such exploits now that I know about them but the least egregious of the bunch has become the strategy literally everyone uses so I feel I can’t do anything about that one.)

mdjessup4906 · August 7

Are you sure they are exploits and not just stupid high dps from meta builds? You wouldn't be the first player to mistake one for the other.

Soarora · August 8

mdjessup4906 wrote: »

Are you sure they are exploits and not just stupid high dps from meta builds? You wouldn't be the first player to mistake one for the other.

Yes, I'm sure. They're not "the boss is dying so quickly that it gets confused what mechanics to do", these are "strategies" that are based on intentionally breaking the fights in a way that has nothing to do with damage. E.g. one of them instakills a boss and the other stops a boss from doing mechanics, negating almost the entire fight. Several people I have known are using these "strategies" to get their trifectas and it's only going to get worse the longer ZOS doesn't take action. The one I refer to as "least egregious" that "everyone does" is in regards to an enemy that doesn't aggro unless you get close or hit it, which makes the fight substantially easier but this bug has been around for so long that it's taken root. I fear the other two which are more clearly horrendous exploits will become the same: The Strategy...