Klojamir Conquers Nightfall

Well Klojamir has conquered another campaign; NF (Nightfall). NF is the latest campaign to go down in the books. I have had NF for quite some time now but never really got into it with Klojamir. I have finished the game with one of my alts. Colien my paragon finished it about 4 months ago, but I just never took Klojamir through. One of my guildies was working through NF and needed a monk to do some healing, and well there wasn't one around. It was at that point I decided to get Klojamir through there so he will be able to be there in a pinch. I am pretty happy that Klojamir has other options now, when help is needed.

Getting Klojamir through the mission "Gate of Madness" (16th mission in NF) was pretty interesting. I joined up with a PUG group and just hoped that it was a descent group. I didn't know enough about the mission to make a go of it alone. I guess I could have read up on it and put together a team of heroes and henchies, but I didn't want to take the time. After being accepted into a group I did a quick glance at the group setup. One of the first things I look at is how many monks there are other than myself. My heart sank a bit when I realized that I was the only healer in the group. At that moment I figured I should just bail now and not waste my time. One monk in one of the highest levels in the story line is not a good thing. Most of the people started pinging there builds and I realized that one of the Elementalists had all monk skills. I figured this was going to be interesting. So I didn’t bail on the group, I just held my breath and jump in.

We started out like every other mission I had done before, without much difficulty. Later on in the mission the level of the mobs started to increase and the battles got a little more intense. I started to realize that I wasn’t as stressed out as much as I thought I would be. I realized that that ele was doing one heck of a job healing. Even on me! She would heal as good as any monk I had seen in a PUG, which totally amazed me. We got down to the last area of the mission where you have to take out 2 main bosses, The Lich, and Shiro. That was one interesting fight. I don’t think that many of the people knew how we were supposed to actually finish this last area. But we tried a few different ways and after several near wipes, and I mean down to one person (the ele). I read the wiki to see what we were supposed to be doing. So we regrouped and went at it again, with a different tactic. Take out the Lich first and forget everything else. We downed the Lich and after a couple minutes, and then each of the groups along the walls of the final chamber. Each group killed gave us much needed buffs. After they were all eliminated we had enough buffs on us to finally attempt to eliminate Shiro.

This last fight was (in my opinion) really intense. There were 8 of us trying to down Shiro, slowly but surely we whittled his health down to the point where we knew we could beat him. But the thing that amazed me was that the healer ele was an incredible healer. She did everything right. The whole battle was total chaos, warriors dying, then being rezzed, I died a hew times, the ele died a few times, everyone in that group died many times. It just continued like that for 15-20 minutes. But no one ever gave up or complained about the healing. Eventually after several four-leaf clovers, and candy canes (to remove the death penalty). We were able to down Shiro.
For me that was really worth it. Yeah we didn’t do it the fastest most productive way. But we did do it and we did work together, we worked together quite well I feel. Getting into a PUG isn’t usually a good experience especially for a healer. But this one made me smile at the end. That was really fun.