The Great Thief

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Today was the last day of the Molten Core Instance Dungeon refresh.

Lu Li was soberly aware that they wouldn’t defeat the last Boss, but they had to defeat Majordomo Executus at least.

Because Wandering had Interlope, there was no need for the players to run back after they died. The repairing bots also saved them from going back to repair their equipment. Ruling Sword was saving a lot of time because of this compared to other clubs.

However, in order to increase their levels, Lu Li would always instruct them to go back to clear the mobs after every attempt.

They were in the game until noon, but the Boss remained undefeated. Lu Li had now reached level 60, and almost half of the players in the team of 40 had also done the same. Lu Li had been lazy with his levelling recently and had fallen behind some other players.

This falling behind was obviously relative to Lu Li. There were about 20 other players who had hit level 60.

At level 60, you could finally change into the level 60 equipment that you had been sitting on. Among other things, Lu Li’s HP was now greater than 5000, which was a significant increase.

After changing his equipment and fighting, Lu Li returned to the top of the damage output rankings. Previously, this God-level Thief had actually dropped because of his equipment. In addition, he had also been spending his time commanding which further affected his DPS.

“Foolish mortals, get ready to perish before the son of flames!”

They had started another attempt and if Executus was a smart NPC, he probably would have said something like, “There is all of Azeroth to see. How long are you idiots going to be here!?”

“Warriors, make sure you keep the aggro. Mages, make sure you don’t get counter-Polymorphed. March Rain keep an eye on the Mages, and help to dispel anyone that gets Polymorphed.”

Lu Li glanced at the composition they had and felt like this was as good as it was going to get. In order to withstand the fire attacks, he had switched in a lot of Warriors. He also gathered as many Mages as he could to cast Polymorph, and did the same with the healers. If they couldn’t defeat the Boss now, there was nothing left he could do.

In terms of damage output, the level 60 players who had replaced their equipment were the main force.

All the top players on the damage output rankings were level 60 players. Lu Li estimated that his strength increased by at least 20% after switching to the level 60 equipment.

As such, he had dared to deploy a tankier composition. Prior to this, the same composition wouldn’t have had enough damage.

A common theme that was found throughout Instance Dungeon strategies was ‘stability’.

The Main Tanks would pull the Boss, the Healers would sustain everyone and the Magic Professions would slowly consume their mana. There was also the element of damage output. The higher their damage output, the less time it would take, which meant less pressure on professions that used mana.

“Breezy, run! World’s Best Friend, pull the Boss!” Lu Li cried out in shock.

They had been playing well until now, but he didn’t expect the Boss to transmit the Main Tank. The probability was so small that it hadn’t happened until now.

Azure Sea Breeze saw that the things in his vision were moving quite quickly. With Lu Li’s reminder, he immediately understood what had happened to him. It was similar to when he used Charge as he rushed into danger. He had suffered a lot of damage, and because he had been tanking the Boss earlier, he didn’t have much HP left.

When Lu Li saw that Azure Sea Breeze was okay, he felt relieved.

“Let World’s Best Friend tank for a bit. You can wait for your skills to refresh.”

“Hachi Chan, revive Rice Ball. Rice Ball, after you are revived, tie your soul stone to Machine Bro. Machine Bro, you can’t die anymore. I have hope that we will defeat the Boss this time,” Lu Li said. He then observed the monsters’ HP and signalled for Sakura Memories to cast Bloodlust.

According to their plan, two Flamewalker elites and Flamewalker Physicians had been killed. There were just two Flamewalker elites and Flamewalker Physicians left.

This was where the problems began.

Originally, the four tanks were responsible for one of the elites while the Mage was responsible for Polymorphing the physician. However, when Majordomo Executus only had four minions left, they became immune to Polymorph, which meant that the rest would not be affected.

Yesterday, it was here that the group got wiped, as they couldn’t Polymorph the final two

physicians.

The Warriors needed to quickly pull the two Flamewalker Physicians while the Thieves had to move in to interrupt their healing.

In this situation, Kick wouldn’t fully interrupt the target. There were a total of four Thieves here. Both Lu Li and Water Fairy had equipment that gave them Kick Skill +1. The probability of success for a level 6 Kick was much higher, but if it failed, the two other Thieves could still fill in. If that still failed, then it was just bad luck.

Even if the Kick failed, the Flamewalker would just be successful in healing. In fact, this wasn’t really a disaster.

“Don’t make any mistakes, I’ll deduct points if you do,” Lu Li said seriously.

Everyone had performed very well until now and had done what they needed to do. They had to do this to defeat the Boss; not a single person could make a mistake.

“I don’t like this deduction system. You have to reward not making a mistake as well,” Azure Sea Breeze said.

Although he just joking, there were actually usually very few mistakes made. Players that had good game awareness and a quick reaction time could avoid most mistakes. The player that was most prone to making mistakes was actually the Main Tank.

“It is your duty to not make mistakes. We’ve been doing a good job, so let’s keep working hard,” Lu Li muttered. “I don’t know if the Boss will go Berserk in the last minute. Some might have to die for us to claim this victory.”

“If I die then I die. I’m already level 60, so I don’t care,” Azure Sea Breeze said.

“We should get as many people as possible to level 60. If we kill the Boss, can you continue leading the people to fight the mobs in this Instance Dungeon?” Lu Li asked.

“I don’t really gain anything from that. I don’t need any EXP and I don’t need the monster’s equipment either,” Azure Sea Breeze grinned.

“Oh, you’re already satisfied are you? How about I give you 10 points at the end of the day for it?” Lu Li offered.

“It’s just 10 points; they’re not worth my time,” Azure Sea Breeze said dismissively.

“If you won’t do it then, World’s Best Friend…”

“Wait, let’s have a proper conversation!”

Azure Sea Breeze had to concede. Ten points wasn’t that much, but it was equivalent to fighting a Boss. No one would think so little of it.

While they were speaking, they managed to kill another monster.

There were only three monsters left, and the monsters were no longer much of a threat. The real danger was now with the Boss.

What everyone needed to do now was to work closely together and avoid any mistakes.