In Ellin party quest, there is a stage where u are supposed to protect the NPC for 2 minutes from the boars. I would like to point out 1 issue and 1 potential "exploit" with this stage. For the 1st issue, during one of my runs, we were out numbered and the NPC was on the brink of death. It was left with <10% hp just as 1 min had passes and my team was ready to head out of the PQ, but miraculously, the NPC survived and all the boars disappeared. We were kinda stunned but nonetheless happy. [I wasn't able to SS the thing but it happened with 1 DK, 1 Hero (who afked), 1 Sair, and 1 NL]. We proceeded to the next stage without issues. For the 2nd issue and potential exploit, in another of my runs, we failed to protect the NPC from harm and it died. We were all kicked out and forced to restart. Unknowingly, I had 20+ marbles from stage 4 brought with me outside of the PQ as these marbles would normally be removed upon exiting thru clicking on the NPC Elin after killing the Boss. However, while in the midst of my next run through, upon getting into stage 4, I was able to use the same marbles which my team had collected from the previous round to complete stage 4 instantaneously. I had not tried to drop/trade those marbles as that was my only instance and did not want to recreate that scenario as it would be time consuming on my end (along with 3-5 other members). I was using the latest 1024 x 768 file (Jan 31) and it was thru a minimized screen when the aforementioned issues occurred. If others had experienced the same thing, please feel free to comment down below.
