I personally view such things as cheating, many players may enjoy or dislike such a exploit but i feel its existence diminishes the prestige of harder difficulties.
Ah, so even if you never use it yourself, the fact that SOMEONE might waste their time trying to get slightly better stats means that you will feel diminished if this isn't removed.
Really, though, the biggest problem with your prestige argument is that in a game where this can happen...
even just a few very strong items, namely weapons can cause you to one shot bosses on tactician.
...that already renders e-peen prestige meaningless. This (among everything else I've heard about it) suggests that the whole difficulty level needs a revamp. Only after that happens will it maybe be meaningful to beat the game on the higher difficulties.
Furthermore i don't believe vendors reroll every hour
You're wrong, they do. Ellezard has tested this extensively on her(?) Tactician mode run, exploiting it to the fullest to get all the Best Lootz.
Coming from a background of high world ranking, in world of Warcraft play for years, bugs and exploits like this can impact the integrity of players and the game.
This explains a lot. This is not an MMO. It is effectively a single-player game. You can't even move your character to another player's campaign to show off your gear. Characters are confined to the campaign they were created in.
