NPC Spawn Issue: Scrubber IV in Ak'anon - faction

[gwideon]

I am 99% sure that he was on neutral faction before a recent patch. He is supposed to rotate/despawn so that Duster V can spawn for the Bootstrutter's backpack quest (which is a posted bug). Now he is on Ak'anon faction so if you kill him to get Duster V to spawn for the quest (since the despawn/respawn doesn't work) you take a faction hit.

I don't think this was intentional, but it breaks a work-around for a known bug.