Originally Posted by
voidspark
Hypothetical question:
I don't count the kill with the Haste buff as legit, one reason being that while I don't think it's technically an "exploit," the boss wasn't designed around you using the haste buff to kill it on Normal. It was meant to help you get to Phase 2 on Heroic, and I guess Blizzard figured if you can get Sha to P2 on Heroic (which requires, by the way, a Normal kill to begin with) then it doesn't really matter whether you have a "free" buff if you fail and clear on Normal that lockout.
But... let's say someone had help getting Sha to P2 on heroic to get the buff, but then soloed Sha on heroic - P1 with buff, and P2. Would that be a legitimate solo in your books?
(Obviously in reality P2 will not be happening until DPS gets to the point where P1 is a joke without buff. But that's why this is hypothetical)