Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-71.205.235.29-20140420170350/@comment-24571857-20140421131354

Technically, it isn't cheating. If it was cheating, you wouldn't be able to do it. GREE has been aware of this for the longest time but there was nothing done to fix it; actually, it would be pretty hard to fix to begin with. What would be the criteria for armors they'd ban you from using in GW? The fixing itself takes place within LINE where many guilds declare at the same time hoping to be matched with one another. To Apocy, I say it doesn't help guilds save gems/not waste them. On the contrary, it leads to more wasting of gems; why would you hold back from gemming when you're guaranteed to win against the opposing GM who has one knight wearing a fusion boost armor? This is precisely the reason GREE hasn't done anything about it, because it is beneficial to them; it leads to much more gem spending = more profits. I get that it would keep guilds who decided they wouldn't win from spending gems, but on the whole, it leads to a boatload more gems spent. I understand why top guilds need to do this to score the ridiculous amounts of points they put up (and not all top guilds strip, for example MTF). It is odd though that you need to 'strip' in order to win war epics, which will be used in the next war to farm a stripped opponent which could be done with 3 star armors. But is it cheating? No, it's not. It's just an exploitation of a loophole that exists. I do think it takes the fun out of the game though.