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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5590659" data-attributes="member: 463">It's much more fun IMO for the dangerous multi-attacking monster to split attacks between the defender and the squishy PC, rather than focusing all attacks on the defender (and thus taking him down quickly) or focusing all attacks on the squishy PC (and thus taking him down quickly, possibly even killing him) - which latter two are the two possibilities what will happen if attacks on the squishy trigger the mark.  Either the monster obeys the mark and focuses on the defender, or ignores the mark and focuses on the squishy.If the mark is not triggered by a split attack on defender + squishy, then the defender has done his job most effectively, he has forced the monster to spread damage around.  He takes some damage, but is probably ok.  The squishy takes some damage, but is probably still alive.Edit: Although pre-MM3 monsters did so little damage, and fights were so grindy, there was a case for having monsters routinely focus attacks and violate marks, just so that more damage happens overall and PCs feel slightly threatened by the focused attack.</blockquote>