To combat this, would you rather each gun have an amunition count that doesn't reset until you manually reload or reload upon running out of bullets?

Food for thought. Anyway, sorry for going off-topic.

...you think OOO has to tell you something's an exploit before it actualy is? I know chu bettor fezor

Let's say I can walk through walls in-game by saying some magic words at my computer, without any use of 3rd party programs or client modification, and OOO has no idea it's even possible. When I'm in the floor grabbing your ankles without warning, watching you fall on your face every time I get a hold of those cute little footies of yours, are you going to say that it isn't an exploit because OOO hasn't said so yet? No, you use judgement to see if something is fair or not fair.

It's not nessecairaly wrong to say that this gun rolling isn't an exploit, but going "OOO, is this an exploit? say nothing if it isn't" is probabaly not great way to validate that point.

The response was something along the lines of "Thanks for telling us about this, we'll look into it!", which is OOO speak for "Go eat a shard bomb, we don't care."

If you want my honest opinion, it's kinda looks like an exploit, but its a fair enough one considering how OP some other things are on their own.

"Go eat a shard bomb, we don't care."
That's not incredibly mean actually. Shard bombs won't do much to your mouth anymore beca- (http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/122/7/8/beating_a_dead_horse_by_p...)

-but the question here pertains to OOO's magic-8 ball governed response crew. Does "we'll look into it" mean "no" or "try again later"?

+1 to OP, talk about UI update please. Also possibly current state of the game, but that might make two podcasts.

"ummm... being a gunner.. I know it is not an exploit
You can obviously do this for swords too.. its called shield canceling or is that exploits too...
Do you have to swing all 3 hammer strikes or the rocket hammer? Do you have to use all 2 hits of a divine avenger?
If gunners have to finish both shots of a gun, swords should have to complete all their strikes!
Gunners are able to shield faster and switch faster because of ASI, not exploits.
Gunslinger haters these days...."

You should work on your reading comprehension. Not once did I say that this should be fixed for just gunners. But I guess, in blind rage, you can only see whatever you want to see.

animation cancelling (which done by shielding in this game) is common in action games, by the way.
Just search youtube or google, you'll find thousand of games. People play them with using this so called exploits.

Flamearc, what exactly did you hope to accomplish with that post? I don't think you'll ever bring anyone to your side of an argument by saying that "something is (censored) wrong with them", even if your opponents themselves decide on the inside that you're completely right. Berating people just makes it obvious that you objective is just to make yourself feel important, as opposed to actually finding a resolution within a rather simple conflict.

Even if you were wiser and more literate, pretty much anyone here would realize that the analogies in your post makes very little sense. The premise of the whole anti-gun rolling thing is that you can switch weapons fast enough to go fire continuously with a weapon that should only shoot twice, simply by either equipping it twice or by pairing something similar to it, then shoot/switch/shoot/switch, effectively making a gun that dosen't reload. If you switch swords over and over in the same fasion, you'll have an infinite ammo sword. That's exactly the same as a regular sword.

You don't have to swing all of your swords strikes in a combo, and you don't have to shoot all of the shots in your guns clip. You are completely correct. Though not one person here has stated that you should have to actually shoot all of the shots in your clip, so there was absolutely no reason to point that out. Most people are fine with shooting once then stopping, but you should have to reload after you do so, as if you had shot all your shots. That doesn't mean you always shoot twice on an alchemer, the same way a calibur dosen't have to strike three times. You simply have to reload after you stop pulling the trigger.

Fezor; "Answer is hazy. Ask again later."
Exactaly, in the end OOO just needs to get their shizums togetha' and tell us so we don't have to figure it out ourselves. Perhaps asking about it in the podcast would help, someone should go do that. huhuhuhu~

Aureate; "OOO know about it existing. It's just they don't consider it enough of a problem to fix it."
I don't believe that is accurate. The UI update is a rather big patch, so combined with the pets OOO has been working on, there is a high probability that they missed this while testing and were never be able to decide how important an issue it was, whether it is fair or not. I think this was only recently brought to their attention.

Poopsie; "animation cancelling (which done by shielding in this game) is common in action games, by the way."
Yes, this is ture. I've been playing a korean game where canceling melee animations by simultaneously moving and switching weapons is a popular maneuver. Why do the moderators and developers of this game believe it is fair? Simple; it can't be helped. If I'm whacking someone with my sword, and I see someone come to his rescue, I'm going to immediately dash away and shoot at him so save myself. If I didn't want to exploit, I'd have to wait for the melee animation to end before pressing any keys. How can you do that, would you take your hands off the keyboard and count the seconds in the animation? You can't do that really. The exploit happens accidentally in most situations, so it isn't the players fault and therefore is not cheating.
Kinda like shield canceling. If someone tries to wack me after I miss a sword swipe, I'm going to block. The animation gets canceled when I block, even if I don't want it to, so it's fair. Gun rolling is a bit different. If I decide I need to change the type of gun I'm firing, perhaps to shoot at an enemy with different defenses, the gun roll effect occurs. Though that would be infrequent, and more often than not the reason for switching isn't just to fire a different gun, it's to avoid reloading, a seemingly more abusive motive to change weapons, since guns are supposed to reload. Again though, it will happen accidentally on a few occasions, making the line hazy.

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