.hack QUARANTINE - Macha

( Warning: SPOILERS! )
Phase 6: Macha, the Temptress

Party:
Kite, Balmung, Wiseman (all lv. 91)

Hi, I'm a slacker. Seems someone else picked up the scragglers in my absence, but hopefully you'll find my sass and wit amusing all the same. :P

That said... who saw THIS coming? Really, and even MORESO if you've watched .hack//SIGN, this whole "hi, I'm a Phase!" thing was bound to happen at some point. Poor Elk. :(

Also of note: this is the ONLY Phase battle that doesn't force BlackRose on you. So I hauled in my favorite killing pair: Balmung and Wiseman!

Macha ties with Skeith on my annoy-o-meter, since both are the only ones so far who could realistically threaten a party wipe if you're not careful. Two Words: Suspicious Seduction. Even if you have capped status resistances (easily doable for Kite), the charm affect is auto-hit, and in most cases you're stuck with issuing a global First Aid order and hoping the survivors don't faceplant before it all wears off. x.x BUT, as you'll see, I encountered a rather amusing pathfinding glitch that worked to my advantage: on two instances, Balmung and Kite ended up running into each other until the charm wore off. Lucky me!

On a final note... Macha's carrying a Fragment. One has to wonder if Mia knew she was holding one of those, or thought it was just Aromatic Grass? Then again, she WAS a no-show in all the other instances that Aura summoned you to cough up her Fragments... :P

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• .hack//QUARANTINE
• .hack
• QUARANTINE
• Phase
• Boss
• Macha
• Kite
• Balmung
• Wiseman

[Elswind]

this bring hatred and anger from old times ... DAMN YOU MACHA DAMN YOUUUU!!!! DIEEEEEEEE!!!!

[plutokiss]

I think Skeith was harder than Macha but Macha certainly was a very very close second.

You didn't have superior healing skills with Skeith and SP issues so Macha was a bit easier.

[idkwhattosayxD]

I remember me hating this phase. At least when she charms all the team..

[ShadowZash]

======SPOILERS=======

T~T I cried this whole fight. Because Macha was on our side. She was punished for it in .hack sign and then she was forced back into the mob. Macha's battle song was another one of my favorites :) Macha and Sora both forced to do that morganna's bidding.

[MikazuKiisu]

This was my fav phase, but also the saddest battle

[haseoxx]

@randomstuff147 Asura and Macha. Eh, they kinda sound similar.

[randomstuff147]

macha looks like the kishin from soul eater ans its name is simmalar to maka

[genimsaj]

Doesn't Elk know that Mia isn't a really person?

[Dacmurf1]

I Would have to agree with you and say skeith was the hardest of the 8 phases Not only because of the inferior healing abilities at the time, but it also seemed like the coding for the monsters and bosses in INFECTION was just more aggressive overall. Skeith would actively seek out my support character where as int he other games the monsters just seemed to get lazy and just attack everything in front of them.

[acejr13]

That's why endurance Is so sad about Mia in g.u

[TAXEXEMPTION]

wow wiseman takes like no damage.

[randomdude581]

@Toothache42 Actually, Macha was the only one of the 8 phases that started to develop intelligence and question her own existence. So as punishment, Morganna created a false Player Character, and imprisoned Macha's power inside the PC, which was Mia. But, as the virus began to take more drastic effects on the game, Mia herself became infected, which ended up backfiring on Morganna, and freeing Macha. So I guess, technically Mia was (indirectly) the very first epitaph user.