Jokanur Diggings HM

Hi guys,

I need some advice on how to pass this mission with heroes.
i tryed taking melonni, ss necro, n/rt and i tryed to take melonni, SoJ smiter, and n/rt. Both failed.
Im a mesmer.

Any advice?

thanx in advance.

Refresh my memory, Jokanur diggings is the second NF mission right?
If so, what part exactly are you failing on?

I cant get passed the chamber with the sunspear, that if I kill I wont get masters.

I need to run quickly so kormir wont kill the sunspears but my healers cant deal with such heavy damage.

Maybe use a HB monk instead of the N/rt then, because it can heal a party more effeciently there.
(Also, all you have to do is keep moving slightly so kormir doesn't stop and attacks)

Grab the first stone and head left no need to fight anything until you get near the pedestal, drop the stone in front of it, not on it. Head to the far wall and run right along it, kill the undead on the way and obviously avoid the flame traps. Grab second stone and run back, now place each one and carry with Masters. I'm a Ranger and used an Ursan Dervish build, then as hero's ran the SS and restoration Sabs, with Mel on a simple tanking build.

HTH and good hunting!

Give Melonni Holy Damage and blow stuff up

In that room my tactic is always to grab the stone and head left straight away and place it in front of the first pedastal (not on it!). Then head up and get the second one, be ready to flag your heroes away from the sunspear ghosts if needs be.

But the problem is when i run past the mobs to the pedestal i get wiped out...

Well, this might be too late for the OP, but maybe not for others. I did this mission last night, with the following hero setup:

Dunkoro as a HB healer with [Extinguish], [Spotless Soul] and [Spotless mind] along with [Words of Comfort] [Ethereal Light] [Dwayna's Kiss] and [Healing Ribbon]. He easily kept all four of us alive, although only Melonni really fought.

Melonni with [Avatar of Balthazar] [Heart of Holy Flame] and a bunch of attacks. She only had 7 skills because I got in an argument in guild chat and forgot to add one more skill. She did perfectly, though. Pretty much anything went down really quickly.

Gwen with [signet of judgment] a bunch of other signets and [holy wrath] which I cast on all four of us.

Myself as a [Broad head arrow] ranger/dervish. I took along [heart of holy flame] to give myself holy damage, as well as [dodge] and [zojun's haste] along with [troll unguent]. Had a couple of attacks, and of course [distracting shot]

Once you get to the fortress, flag the Monk and Smiter behind, with Melonni just about outside their aggro range. Go ahead and pull the undead that you need to kill. Pull them to Melonni, and either tank with her (if not a ranged/caster) or move a bit back once they focus on Melonni. Make sure they're in range of the smiter, and that you don't go too far away from the monk.

It shouldn't be a problem, since they go down REALLY fast. I did 200+ damage with [heart of holy flame] + [sloth hunter's shot].

After the first mob of undead is gone, unflag and run, get the tablet, and run ahead. Kormir won't attack the ghost if you're moving, and the heroes will follow you (or you can set them to Avoid combat).

Drop the tablet next to the pedestal (not ON it) and repeat the procedure on the other side, for the next tablet. I used my run skills to just run and get the tablet and ran back, followed by the undead, who then died . It's possible to lure them, but I didn't want to bother flagging my heroes outside the fire traps.

Once you've got both tablets next to the pedestals, pick them up quickly and put them on the pedestals. The sunspear ghosts won't have time to run there. But hurry and pass through the door anyway.

If you're a squishy, another easy option is to wait until the Sunspear ghost is out of range, and flag Melonni ahead so she draws the aggro. Then you can either flag her backwards so she brings the enemies close to you, or you go forward to help her. Or bring a bonder instead of the Smiter, and have them bond Melonni. Then give Melonni a /Mo build and micro her skills.

Make sure you either bring lots of spammable partywide condition-removal and healing, or give her [Avatar of Melandru] so she'll be immune to conditions. I haven't tested this, but if you cast [Heart of Holy Flame] after [Avatar Of Melandru] she should be dealing Holy damage instead of earth damage. Doesn't matter as long as the bonder keeps [Holy Wrath] and [retribution] on her, though. Those kill the undead pretty fast.

A 55 monk can do this pretty easily, I think. At least until the final boss, that is. And you can't do it yourself, since Kormir will follow you. Maybe get a friend to help?

pull the killable mobs back away from the fire jets and the sunspear ghosts so kormir doesn't kill them. make your way to the tablets and drop the first one in front of the pedestal so it doesn't get carried off. get the second tablet and bring it to the other pedestal. put the first tablet on the first pedestal and go on through.
that room is the toughest, so take it slow, watch for the fire jets, and keep moving if kormir attacks the ghosts.

I brought a friend and it helped a lot. Melonni was avatar of balth, bond monk, ursan, imbagon.

I can run this in hardmode, My ele for this mission would be a b-surge bot (I need this to complete the mish) N/rt healer, Melonni, with a normal balthazar build after the part not to kill sunspears i forgot to set her off of Avoid combat, didnt even notice a diffrence in the mish, the last person can be anyone preferably an ursan its good to do this with 2 ppl so you still have some dmg with not to kill the ghostys

Why would you run past mobs? You only don't kill 2 or 3 enemies. And please don't run through the fire traps. =P be patient.

Oh and also, Aura of Holy Might > Heart of Holy Flame for actual humans.

I'm not even rank 1 in the Kurz/Lux titles And I was using a bow, not a scythe.

I just did this mission with my mesmer in HM.

I ran something like this :

[Blood is Power][Enfeebling Blood][Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support][Insidious Parasite][Great Dwarf Weapon][Inspired Enchantment][You Move Like a Dwarf][Resurrection Signet]

Melonni:

[Wounding Strike][Mystic Sweep][Protectors Strike][Attackers Insight][Heart of Holy Flame][Watchful Intervention][Faithful Intervention][Resurrection Signet]

Dunkoro:

[Healers Boon][Patient Spirit][Spirit Bond][Dwaynas Kiss][Mend Condition][Glyph of Lesser Energy][Shield of Absorption][Resurrection Chant]

Talhkora:

[Life Sheath][Reversal of Fortune][Shield of Absorption][Protective Spirit][Guardian][Mend Condition][Glyph of Lesser Energy][no skill]

There's no need to go super offensive, as the enemies have no self healing whatsoever, except for the end boss.

My only death was when I bipped too much, down to 1 health and got wanded. >_>;

Melonni with GDW+Heart of Holy Flame tears through them. Even with Weakness, the melee hurts like hell, and the Deathly Swarms are killer, so I brought two monks along to be safe. Don't worry about Kormir too much, it'll take her a few minutes of spear chucking to kill the ghostly sunspear, so don't run past mobs, take the time to kill them. It's also easier I might add if you go the way that is closer to the door you come in (if you turn left, iirc, you end up at the stone pedestals) to get the tablets to the pedestals.