You're still cutting your connection to the game world. Its a cheat.

Not arguing for anything to do with the bug. Only stating the fact that it doesn't fall under network manipulation.

Its cheap and undeserving of any reward. Weak players in the game that can't beat this boss normally???? Its not even hard!

Like I said. I don't care about what people are doing to beat him. Just here to state that it is not network manipulation. If you go over to the Se7en Xbox modding community and take a look at their man in the middle methods, those are network manipulation. You pass the connection through your pc to your console, record the packets that happen during a certain activity, and then send them when you want it to happen. You could plausibly even start a strike then send the boss defeated packets to end it without doing anything.

All of these things defeat the purpose of gaming.