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The last few pages remind me of a new pet peeve and the #1 reason why a mara KQ fails for me:
"OMG HURRY! WE'RE GOING TO LOSE!"
This is my most hated statement. No res clerics I can live with, since 1. we just come from King Slime where there was no res and 2. if done well no one should run out of hearts in a mara KQ. Just one healing cleric is fine as well, since a strong tank with plenty of stones and pots can pull off tanking the bosses.
The problem comes when the tanker dies. The easiest thing to do is for everyone to stop attacking, RUN away (if the boss comes running, someone can pull them away), everyone reses, rests, and recovers from shock while we get back together.
Instead, everyone DEMANDS to keep hitting them (probably because they stay still for a moment, so it looks like you're safe). When you start calling out for people to stop hitting, the reply is "He's healing! HIT HIM NOW! HURRY!" or "20 minutes left! Hurry or we fail!". Sometimes, the fear of dying keeps these people from attacking first, but you eventually get an arrow or a missile flung out from the crowd, the boss runs forward killing 3 or 4 people while the rest scatter WHILE ATTACKING.
The last KQ I was in had this at the very end. We killed real mara, pulled real Marlone, but the tank dies. The result is me screaming out "STOP ATTACKING! REGROUP!" while everyone keeps hitting and dying. The only reason this ended was because everyone but 2 clerics (one with res) and myself died, ending the cycle.
The clerics, bless their hearts, focused on resing everyone (starting with other clerics that can res) and everyone was too paniced from dying to try fighting again. Instead, they kept screaming "HE'S HEALING! HIT HIM! WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!". I told them that we had 23 minutes left and it only took 3 to kill marlone. The reply "We lost!" Good thing no one suicided or went mob trainy.
People screamed for the tank to go tank again. Said tank ran out of scrolls and had no hearts left so cried out no, and I was in agreement. I called my def/hp and said I can tank (STR warrior but with a shield). They agreed, and screamed at me to GO! The good thing with most people, though, is that once they know who the tank is, they will not strike till the tank hits (especially after dying several times without one). I took the chance to organize myself, let the team get ready, then calmly went in and did the job. Quest completed (witih 20 minutes to spare), I got nothing from the box but got the 2nd sidequest (mara with the first fake, marlone with the real one I tanked) AND reached L20.
Figured this thread needed a good ending KQ, because I have too many that ended with everyone dying. In fact, the first Mara KQ I did with said warrior ended up with everyone hitting fake marlone until everyone but me and an END warrior was kicked out. Good thing from that was that both of us decided to just run back and kill off pirates to complete our 1st sidequests.
The joys of KQs. Oh well, if they were all easy I'd be so bored I would've gave them up.
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