User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 360: The White Inheritance, Review./@comment-7418318-20131115130017/@comment-3290324-20131115131353

They had no reason to assume Makarov wouldn't be alright. He was stronger than everyone in Phantom by far. The only reason he got drained was because he was ambushed. That's not really arrogance, that's just an unfortunate event. Besides, in a war, you expect casualties and the two guilds were at war. Fairy Tail came out victorious in the end, and that's all that matters.