Protect the Learned

Okay first, are the devs on crack? LOL I tried to help someone with this. No way to pull, or split them up (margionites) they follow forever, enmasse.. lol for 4k and 400 gold.. Yeah right not in this lifetime lol

I mean come on about 60 margs charge you, half were casters, and most were warriors, I followed the wiki, and said forget it. LOL

The npc's you escort are level 10, for crying out loud..

They could have made it happen in waves and last longer etc, but no, impossible is fun.. I doubt this can be done with heroes/henchies. I'm thinking you need all players, and elite at that, high LB etc..

As for me, Bah I blew it off..

I think I managed to complete it way back when, I think it was bugged. As for now, well, I don't think you actually have to collect all those guys. I seem to remember just grabbing one or two and the rest just stayed where they were and the Margonites just ignored them. I think this quest actually needs to be done by several human, high level lightbringers. Your gonna need to [skill]Lightbringer's Gaze[/skill] the hell out of them. [skill]Echo[/skill]'ing and [skill]Arcane Echo[/skill]'ing would probably help as well.

I wonder how [skill]Shadow Form[/skill], [skill]Sliver Armor[/skill], [skill]Recall[/skill] would work against this mob. If enough of them were beating on you that would send out some insane quantity of damage.

I agree with Lightbringer (I'm 4.75 now) being needed. Interesting idea about not gathering them all. I'll tell the person doing it.

so, i did it with henchies for the 3. try.
Yeah, this quest is bugged, the margonites attack you when you reach them on the radar (not the aggro bubble!). I was elementalist and i used many pbaoe skills (elite: savannah heat) on casters and i could handle 3 teams together.

That quest can be easely hero/henched with careful pulling
Margonites spawns only after you talk with all scholars and start moving only when aggroed (but they aggro range ~ radar range)
1. talk with all but one scholars (do not talk with one that nearest to quest giver)
2. wait until all scholars gather in back room of building and only then talk with the last one
3. very slowly and with pressed CTRL key move toward margonite spawn site
when you will see they red markers through the wall (it will be about little more then radar range) immidiatelly go back and camp in one of choke points(usually only 1 or 2 groups aggroed and came to you)
4 When you kill them repeat 3. until all of them done.
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alternative, if you have another human player
1 one player (any profession) go and talk with all scholars except one
2 second player wait near margonite portal at choke point that lead to palace, when all scholars exept one warned, he, and his ranger heroes start to trap that choke point
3 first player talks with last scholar, margonites spawn, instantly aggroed because of nearby player 2 and (because they all spawned at once) trigger all traps. If something survives add some nuking from ele hero.

This quest has been bugged for most of it's lifetime. At first you didn't need to talk to the scholars and you had all the time to kill the margonites. They just mopped up near the quest giver.
Shortly before wintersday the quest was probably in it's correct state, when you had to talk to the scholars and the margonites approached in waves of 2 groups.
After wintersday the quest changed to this all approach at the same time madness.

Get someone to sit and block the stairs off way at the top near where they spawn and quickly kill the first half, then run straight back round the closest way and fight the second half (hardest part) as they reach the guys you have to protect. We brang 3 copys of SoA and two copies of healing seed which pretty much killed all there concentrated damage.
Also shadow of fear + Well of darkness seemed to work very well here.