In every game there are by far the best tactics that can easily spoil the fun if you abuse them.
What is the difference between putting a few barrels on yourself from stacking many skull traps to one shot the boss in BG2?
Or releasing cloudkill into the room from the very edge of the screen? This was by far the most effective tactic in most fights.
Technically, none of these methods were even an exploit.
If you discovered an immortality exploit (as in the older bg) would you use it as it is the most optimal way to play
Those are all things that slipped through in the balancing process. BG2 wasn't perfect. It would have been a better game if those Cloudkill tricks wouldn't work.
But just because things sometimes slip through doesn't mean you stop trying altogether with some "If you don't like it, don't use it" mentality. Especially for things that are really obvious like barrelmancy.
