I totally agree this is not an exploit in any way shape or form. WHY.
1. its the same as sitting on shore and powering down, letting some low level player who you would normally not be allowed to attack, take your map, and revenge them later
2. its the same concept as powering down and arena and moving down in the ranks to farm smaller players.
3. Dawnseeker has repeatedly stated that Tynon team wants us to figure things out, so we did. If they didn't intend it to be this way they need to change it. Just like last hit on WB. We igured out teh timing so the same people could always get it, they did not call this an exploit, they just said this is not how it was intended and changed it.
4. Noone from Tynon team has informed the players that manipulating the power of the statues is not what they intended.
5. If the team wanted it to be the most powerful 2 members of the realm, they would ignore arena, and use an algorithm to calculate the 2 strongest players and set it based on their algorithm of how to make each of those two players forms be the strongest

SO its not an exploit. It may not be what the Tynon Team intended, but that does not make it an exploit.