I know about 'panic', it's a perfectly legit feature of uoam when used as intended. It was used a lot by the less proficient pvpers on Europa, accusations of using it featured quite a bit in trash talk. Only any good when you're in a map with someone else of course. Hit panic and all your guild rallied to your side to take on whoever was attacking you.
Barian and I used to use it to notify each other we'd found a paragon when we used to hunt in Ilsh together, which is not quite 'as intended', but still a legit use. We'd split up to take on regular daemons and get together to tackle the paragons. Daemons used to be harder back then. It flashes a dot on the map screen where the panicked player is so that you can find him/her.