Originally Posted by
gaffox
Just tested it, and it seems that AE fixed the merge glitch in the last update they just made, even trying to do the glitch with 0 delay you will end up with the merge item and losing the materials, so I suppose all of the merge process must be server side now, since disconnecting doesn't seem to affect it in any way. (Also doesn't seem to work for quests either)
So if anyone was thinking of getting the NSoD, good luck.
Will tell a mod to mark the post as outdated if the glitch doesn't work for anyone anymore.