Running Maguuma Jungle

A couple of guildies and I ran a few missions in the Maguuma Jungle tonight. I have been through there a couple of times running Klojamir and my sons warrior, so I was pretty familiar with the missions. One of our guild members hadn't been through there so we ran 3 of the missions with him. We ran Aurora Glade, Riverside Province, and Sanctum Cay. We ran with an interrupter ranger, warrior, and Klojamir of course was the monk, he is set up as a straight healer with no prot. We took a couple heroes along as well. We took Jora for some melee damage, Olias set as a minion master, and we added Melonnie for some added melee damage so we could plow through a little faster. We got the bonus on all 3 missions so that was pretty nice. They really aren't that difficult, but we ended up running Sanctum Cay twice because at the end of the first time we messed up and didn't get to Vizier Khilbron soon enough. He didn't stand long against 6-7 White Mantle. We were trying to complete the bonus and accidentally got to close to the boat which activated Vizier and the White Mantle. The second time through was pretty quick considering we didn't have to worry about the spirit and the bonus. All in all it went really well.

I really enjoy being the healer in the group. It's true I do not get to see most of the action and the cool affects, but for me it gets pretty intense trying to keep the health bars full. I find that a lot of the time I don't see anything but the health bars for an entire mission. So when someone asks which way did you go here or there, I kinda have to shrug my shoulders. I usually end up doing a mission a few times so eventually I get to know my way around. My brother runs a warrior and is pretty good at it, so I kind of just follow his lead and try keeping up and keep him alive. On my other account I run as a Minion Master. Both the monk and the MM (Minion Master) are both caster classes, but they are played in 2 totally different ways. For me as a MM I concentrate on my minions alone and nothing else. I watch all of the bodies that are falling so I can snag up as many minions as possible. I have notice that I can focus on what is actually going on and even target the next target. I like the fact that I can call out who is going to be hit next. With the monk I have no time to look and see which target is next. If I take my eyes off the health bars..... Olias will be pulling his next minion out of my own group.