Re: Video Review of Desktop Dungeons and a Let's Play!
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 4:34 am
Really? Dang.
Part 60: Now you have all gods. I hope you try out the extra altar prep. Goblin assassin is nice, but you aren't playing the SUPER ASSASSIN. I won't spoil the strategy, but it is totally counter intuitive, and it only requires one glyph past level 1. Thank you for thinking. That was going to give you mana burn. EM is nice in magma mines. I don't know how, but magma mines seems to waste a lot of your tiles, so you almost always run out of regen space. IMAWAL can prevent that. As a low level EM worshipper, you should basically ALWAYS take a couple shots of vine form. There is no way you can get that kill without taking damage. Refreshment would be incredible. It is a great combo for the goblin. That is 5 (or is it 4) extra fireballs. Of course it is way better with a big mana pool (refreshed warlords FTW). You can totally regen fight him. There is no point in exploring around him if he already has first strike. Why aren't you using IMAWAL? And you remembered it! FINALLY! That level 5 is out of your league. Cave snakes are some of the worst targets in the game. They are like spawning poisonous meat men. It's TERRIBLE. How on earth would you kill him. WAIT! Dang. You didn't need CYDSTEPP to win. You could have just hit, fireball twice and first strike. Okay, well at least you aren't using CYDSTEPP to kill that level 4. A level 8 cave snake is terrible. You practically have to use swift hands. You could kill that meat man. If you just keep using APHEELSIK, this will work. Even still, I'm not sure that it's worth the amount of tiles this will take. 5 tiles is the magic number. 5 tiles is the amount of tiles it costs to cast APHEELSIK AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT! Why does this never occur to you? There still is reason for GETINDARE, but you don't really need that dodge chance. NO! USE APHEELSIK AGAIN! THAT WAS A TOTALLY VIABLE KILL! You are totally misusing APHEELSIK! The whole point is you keep casting it throughout the battle so the enemy never stops being poisoned. As long as APHEELSIK nets you 5 tiles, you can keep APHEELSIKing until you WIN! Seriously, unless you are going to properly APHEELSIK, you have no shot against that level 8 meat man. You are totally wrong. Without properly using APHEELSIK, you will never win this fight at such as low level. Why do you have such a strange problem with APHEELSIKing again. YES! YOU GOT IT! JUST KEEP APHEELSIKING! And mistake. You could have just fireballed twice and first struck. Don't get so wrapped up in your APHEELSIKing that you fail to kill him. Please do this right. Don't forget the true value of APHEELSIK. That's not just an extra glyph, that's 100 CP. NO! APHEELSIK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT BURNDAYRAZ! If he is going to run out of poison and you can't kill him right then, you use APHEELSIK! You could have explored 1 tile and used IMAWAL. All you need is one BURNDAYRAZ. Why would you explore 5 tiles when 3 was sufficient? Precasting IMAWAL and CYDSTEPP is like tilecide. Seriously, you are totally throwing away your black space. WRONG! :_(. If targeted the magic one off the bat you could use your clearances to finish him easily and then first strike the physical one. See, if you had put your divine resources first and foremost (as you should), you would have chose the physical immune one. That was creative, but unnecessary. Guess what magic immune means? YOU CAN'T USE SPELLS! This fight is going to be tough to watch. You could have killed the physical immune one feeling parched. PHYSICAL IMMUNE ALREADY WAS EASY! EASIER THAN THE MAGIC IMMUNE! You can and one hit which does less damage than two fireballs, and you had to throw away a level up to get that hit, and your god boons don't help you, and you miscalculated you damage. That was a good use of the strength potion. The only shame is now you won't be able to immediately kill him. When you kill one, the other is reduced to 1 hp. Corrosion on bosses barely matters unless you can't take a shot. Why would you get to level 9 first when you could start the battle now. The thing is, you should almost always be scoring two level ups on a boss. You might be able to score 3 mid fight level ups. You still don't understand the true power of the assassin. Why would you not try for yet another mid fight level up? How lame. You had another level up. You are limiting yourself. You missed a level 9 goblin. That's on you. Anyways, nice win on your first good try on magma mines. It could have been better, but that's okay. The main terrible thing it you virtually never used your god. You were riding on max piety and not even looking at EM. YOu could have avoided purchasing both items simply by taking two hits of vine form. You could have scored feeling parched by using clearance.
KEY POINTS: When regen fighting, APHEELSIK IS TOP PRIORITY! If the monster is going to run out of poison (tile count is under 5), you have 5 mana, and you can't kill it right now, CAST APHEELSIK! Never forget your god. You will always regret it. You tend to overvalue CYDSTEPP--it is far to resource intensive.
Part 61: Magma mines is a fun dungeon. The thing about the immune guys, is you only really need to kill one. The rogue, warlord, and berserker all have fairly easy times in the magma mines. Generally, any character who is really good at physical or magical fighting are good at this dungeon, although it is generally easier for physical guys because mages can't always take a hit from the magic immune guy. Ah! THE PACTMAKER! Yeah, you've seen these altars. One thing is the pacts cannot get you punished. They just don't activate without the piety. The best pact for your rogue is the warriors pact. An exp valuable enemy is any enemy that gives exp. The thing is you need to find a reliable source of piety. That level 3 is way out of your league. If you use that strength potion you can almost kill it. It isn't just +damage. It is +BASE DAMAGE. Anything that says +damage is +BASE DAMAGE. That means it is modified by your huge attack bonus. You need to explore around him so you can WEYTWUT him without him fully healing. Just restart. Take the strength potion off the bat so you still have enough mana for WEYTWUT. Always have the strength potion for the first hit. Thankfully he didn't have a few more hit points, but if he had that would have been a colossal waste. You don't get punished, instead you don't get your pact effect until you can pay for it again. Always WEYTWUT the lowest level thing (unless you are moving something out of the way). This is one of the few instances where you might want to take drac off the bat. You won't really get any boons out of him, but you will get a bunch of hp. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? WHY WOULD YOU THROW AWAY THE MORE VALUABLE POPCORN ON PURPOSE?! You don't get that hp without the piety. You can't just cheat the pactmaker. That is a poisonous level 5 that won't level you. Better known as a BAD target. That's a guitar, not an axe. How smart of you to save the guitar. I was going to comment on how you should. You can't hit anyone because you're only looking at targets you can't hit! You don't need to keep WEYTWUTing guys. You can just use the titan guitar later. That is why you always take magnet: fireball. OH MY GOD! THE LEGENDARY PACKROG EMERGES! Packrog is the unfair combination of Taurog and the Pactmaker. The insane amount of piety taurog generates is enough to abuse the pactmaker's pacts and still get all of Taurog's stuff. NOOOOOOO! WHY WOULD YOU NOT ACCEPT THE MIGHTY PACKROG?! If only you had. This would have been a shut out. You really should. You see, you don't have to convert out of the pactmaker. You just have a symbiotic relationship with the pactmaker. You feed him piety, and he feeds you power. This ought to be a joke. You are smart to turn to the great Packrog's might. I hope you don't forget your compression seal. Yes, you better not make the mistake of converting BURNDAYRAZ. He is considered an exp valuable enemy. It just nets you 8 piety, or 5 with the leech. Taurog is giving you happiness. Why would you not choose the level 7 minotaur who has less hp. No, you should stick to level 7's. You don't have nearly enough. Unless you throw away your popcorn for hp, it's going to be very difficult to hit 97. Nice job! As unintuitive as that was, I agree with what you did. Congratulations on thinking outside the box. Okay, that wasn't so smart. You need to save SOME popcorn. NO! STOP RIGHT NOW! NOW THE MAGIC IMMUNE BOSS WILL FULLY HEAL AND YOU ARE OF TAUROG! YOU HAVE TO THINK! You just made the dungeon effectively twice as hard because of a rash, spur of the moment, not thought out decision. You could have avoided this whole thing and scored feeling parched. Why do you hate getting feeling parched. WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?! Why would you throw away a mid fight level up? You could have gotten two mid fight level ups and been only 14 damage short of killing the goblin jerk. Meh, Taurog doesn't get that angry. You have to REALLY not be paying attention to get punished by Tauorg, unless you intentionally convert some of his gear. Heck, your rogue almost has average hp. Just two more kills and he will! No, you don't the popcorn you kill will compensate for the fireballs. It's only 2 piety. Seriously, he won't get THAT angry. He isn't very easy. It's 5 solid hits from the boss. A mid fight level up (?), some fireballs., and a first strike hit should be plenty. Why would you fireball when you don't need to. This is not easier than HHoS. For a veteran player, HHoS is a much easier dungeon. You just don't have the same skill set as a veteran. Seriously, the better you get at regen fighting, the more of a joke the indomitable becomes. I've killed him at level 4.
KEY POINTS: Never kill one bodyguard unless you can see the other. Packrog is unstoppable. When you have a choice between killing more valuable popcorn vs less valuable (and in this case damaging) popcorn, always choose LESS VALUABLE. Always precast (pre-use?) the strength potion, so you also get your full magical resources against the enemy. An exp valuable enemy is any enemy without the "No Experience" trait.
Part 62: I agree with you. Do it until it's done. It may be just doing the same dungeon over again, but every run is unique. Each class makes you play differently unless you use Taurog (Read: CLICK TILL IT DIES!), and there are so many random elements that it is so different ever. Southern Swamp it is the easiest dungeon in the game (not counting Hobbler's Hold). Seriously, you have an issue with plants. Why would you take a piece of popcorn over 10 or so mana burn plants that are ALL in the way. Binlor is the god of all wall destroying happiness. Actually, he gives you PISORF. His first boon gives you ENDISWAL for 35 piety. You pushed him into a "flyable" as the devs named them. "Flyables" are the uncrossable, indestructible terrain that is usually represented by liquid (water, lava, etc) or a pit of spikes (or whatever that red stuff is). PISORF only does damage if you push something into a wall or another enemy. Generally when playing Binlor you should immediately get ENDISWAL as fast as you can. Yeah, you never had a shot against the meat man. Wow, you moused over every boon except the one that gives you ENDISWAL. That was rather amusing. You can't beat that meat man. ACCEPT IT! You can beat a level 3 enemy at best without any more boosters/glyphs/items. The boss is always the same. That's partially why it's so easy. There, now the level 4's are good targets. This is painfully amusing. You just threw away a health potion, and you've foolishly limited yourself to PISORF. You should target the level 6 gorgon. You can't quite beat the level 7 snake (which you pushed into blackspace). TT is the yellow god. He's a fun one. Probably my favorite god of all. THE CRUSADER! YES! UNLOCK HIM! You need to score 100 piety to get the crusader to talk to you. You seriously overvalue poison. His best boons are Tikki's Edge and Reflexes. Tikki loves APHEELSIK. If you didn't want BURNDAYRAZ, I'd take it. PISORF is designed to be a pain until you purchase ENDISWAL. If you gain max piety now you can get the crusader! You aren't even close to that level 8 zombie. Why would you convert to TT before a big fight. You should always convert RIGHT before you score a big kill. Be careful. If TT punishes you you are basically screwed. I told you, the poison boon is inconsequential. You only score a piety for the FIRST hit on each monster, and it amounts to basically one tile per level of poison. You're screwed. Two hits and he punishes. Wow that was close. I'm so glad you were paying attention to piety. I'm glad you understand how TT is best played. He poisons you. You may get the kill, but it will leave you poisoned. There is no point in using APHEELSIK against a poisoner. You already get that 1 piety from the poison boon, and using ENDISWAL scores the extra hit. NO! USE ENDISWAL TWICE SO YOU CAN SURVIVE AN EXTRA--DANG! You are cursed, so no matter what he does enough to kill you. YOU ARE EXPLORING?! YOU ARE CURSED! PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU HAVE ON YOU! Lol, you would have survived that. YOU'RE CURSED! That was a terrible overall result. He didn't even level you. No, you are fine. You can beat that boss handily with what you already have. If you use Reflexes this will be even easier. You should be able to score two mid fight level ups if you don't waste popcorn. Which, of course, is what you immediately did. If you are trying to get close to leveling, DO NOT USE POPCORN TO DO SO. Do good reasonable fights to get close, then popcorn to make the 1-5 exp remaining, so you can score TWO mid fight level ups. You cannot regen fight a two level higher zombie without BURNDAYRAZ. You've thrown away so much popcorn that I'm crying on the inside. WHY DO YOU LIMIT YOURSELF TO 1 MID FIGHT LEVEL UP? WHY, OH WHY, OH WHY?! Dodge is not that valuable. Reflexes is more valuable in almost every fight (every fight under 20 attacks). Scholar's Pack is the late game pack. It makes your mid fight level ups vs the boss very valuable, especially later in the game. It is the difference between one and two hits. Take reflexes. Good. Here's the 5 second explanation of both potions: You use it and get an extra hit. Why would you not use your excess mana on ENDISWALs? There. See, easy. Reflexes is an awesome boon.
KEY POINTS: Never level up with remaining mana unless you literally cannot use it. DO NOT LIMIT YOURSELF TO 1 MID FIGHT LEVEL UP. Look at taking early god boons. Seriously, you practically only consider late game potential, which is about 10% of the stuff gods can give you. And it isn't even the best 10%. Binlor's first boon provides ENDISWAL for 35 piety. I recommend it.
Part 60: Now you have all gods. I hope you try out the extra altar prep. Goblin assassin is nice, but you aren't playing the SUPER ASSASSIN. I won't spoil the strategy, but it is totally counter intuitive, and it only requires one glyph past level 1. Thank you for thinking. That was going to give you mana burn. EM is nice in magma mines. I don't know how, but magma mines seems to waste a lot of your tiles, so you almost always run out of regen space. IMAWAL can prevent that. As a low level EM worshipper, you should basically ALWAYS take a couple shots of vine form. There is no way you can get that kill without taking damage. Refreshment would be incredible. It is a great combo for the goblin. That is 5 (or is it 4) extra fireballs. Of course it is way better with a big mana pool (refreshed warlords FTW). You can totally regen fight him. There is no point in exploring around him if he already has first strike. Why aren't you using IMAWAL? And you remembered it! FINALLY! That level 5 is out of your league. Cave snakes are some of the worst targets in the game. They are like spawning poisonous meat men. It's TERRIBLE. How on earth would you kill him. WAIT! Dang. You didn't need CYDSTEPP to win. You could have just hit, fireball twice and first strike. Okay, well at least you aren't using CYDSTEPP to kill that level 4. A level 8 cave snake is terrible. You practically have to use swift hands. You could kill that meat man. If you just keep using APHEELSIK, this will work. Even still, I'm not sure that it's worth the amount of tiles this will take. 5 tiles is the magic number. 5 tiles is the amount of tiles it costs to cast APHEELSIK AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT! Why does this never occur to you? There still is reason for GETINDARE, but you don't really need that dodge chance. NO! USE APHEELSIK AGAIN! THAT WAS A TOTALLY VIABLE KILL! You are totally misusing APHEELSIK! The whole point is you keep casting it throughout the battle so the enemy never stops being poisoned. As long as APHEELSIK nets you 5 tiles, you can keep APHEELSIKing until you WIN! Seriously, unless you are going to properly APHEELSIK, you have no shot against that level 8 meat man. You are totally wrong. Without properly using APHEELSIK, you will never win this fight at such as low level. Why do you have such a strange problem with APHEELSIKing again. YES! YOU GOT IT! JUST KEEP APHEELSIKING! And mistake. You could have just fireballed twice and first struck. Don't get so wrapped up in your APHEELSIKing that you fail to kill him. Please do this right. Don't forget the true value of APHEELSIK. That's not just an extra glyph, that's 100 CP. NO! APHEELSIK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT BURNDAYRAZ! If he is going to run out of poison and you can't kill him right then, you use APHEELSIK! You could have explored 1 tile and used IMAWAL. All you need is one BURNDAYRAZ. Why would you explore 5 tiles when 3 was sufficient? Precasting IMAWAL and CYDSTEPP is like tilecide. Seriously, you are totally throwing away your black space. WRONG! :_(. If targeted the magic one off the bat you could use your clearances to finish him easily and then first strike the physical one. See, if you had put your divine resources first and foremost (as you should), you would have chose the physical immune one. That was creative, but unnecessary. Guess what magic immune means? YOU CAN'T USE SPELLS! This fight is going to be tough to watch. You could have killed the physical immune one feeling parched. PHYSICAL IMMUNE ALREADY WAS EASY! EASIER THAN THE MAGIC IMMUNE! You can and one hit which does less damage than two fireballs, and you had to throw away a level up to get that hit, and your god boons don't help you, and you miscalculated you damage. That was a good use of the strength potion. The only shame is now you won't be able to immediately kill him. When you kill one, the other is reduced to 1 hp. Corrosion on bosses barely matters unless you can't take a shot. Why would you get to level 9 first when you could start the battle now. The thing is, you should almost always be scoring two level ups on a boss. You might be able to score 3 mid fight level ups. You still don't understand the true power of the assassin. Why would you not try for yet another mid fight level up? How lame. You had another level up. You are limiting yourself. You missed a level 9 goblin. That's on you. Anyways, nice win on your first good try on magma mines. It could have been better, but that's okay. The main terrible thing it you virtually never used your god. You were riding on max piety and not even looking at EM. YOu could have avoided purchasing both items simply by taking two hits of vine form. You could have scored feeling parched by using clearance.
KEY POINTS: When regen fighting, APHEELSIK IS TOP PRIORITY! If the monster is going to run out of poison (tile count is under 5), you have 5 mana, and you can't kill it right now, CAST APHEELSIK! Never forget your god. You will always regret it. You tend to overvalue CYDSTEPP--it is far to resource intensive.
Part 61: Magma mines is a fun dungeon. The thing about the immune guys, is you only really need to kill one. The rogue, warlord, and berserker all have fairly easy times in the magma mines. Generally, any character who is really good at physical or magical fighting are good at this dungeon, although it is generally easier for physical guys because mages can't always take a hit from the magic immune guy. Ah! THE PACTMAKER! Yeah, you've seen these altars. One thing is the pacts cannot get you punished. They just don't activate without the piety. The best pact for your rogue is the warriors pact. An exp valuable enemy is any enemy that gives exp. The thing is you need to find a reliable source of piety. That level 3 is way out of your league. If you use that strength potion you can almost kill it. It isn't just +damage. It is +BASE DAMAGE. Anything that says +damage is +BASE DAMAGE. That means it is modified by your huge attack bonus. You need to explore around him so you can WEYTWUT him without him fully healing. Just restart. Take the strength potion off the bat so you still have enough mana for WEYTWUT. Always have the strength potion for the first hit. Thankfully he didn't have a few more hit points, but if he had that would have been a colossal waste. You don't get punished, instead you don't get your pact effect until you can pay for it again. Always WEYTWUT the lowest level thing (unless you are moving something out of the way). This is one of the few instances where you might want to take drac off the bat. You won't really get any boons out of him, but you will get a bunch of hp. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? WHY WOULD YOU THROW AWAY THE MORE VALUABLE POPCORN ON PURPOSE?! You don't get that hp without the piety. You can't just cheat the pactmaker. That is a poisonous level 5 that won't level you. Better known as a BAD target. That's a guitar, not an axe. How smart of you to save the guitar. I was going to comment on how you should. You can't hit anyone because you're only looking at targets you can't hit! You don't need to keep WEYTWUTing guys. You can just use the titan guitar later. That is why you always take magnet: fireball. OH MY GOD! THE LEGENDARY PACKROG EMERGES! Packrog is the unfair combination of Taurog and the Pactmaker. The insane amount of piety taurog generates is enough to abuse the pactmaker's pacts and still get all of Taurog's stuff. NOOOOOOO! WHY WOULD YOU NOT ACCEPT THE MIGHTY PACKROG?! If only you had. This would have been a shut out. You really should. You see, you don't have to convert out of the pactmaker. You just have a symbiotic relationship with the pactmaker. You feed him piety, and he feeds you power. This ought to be a joke. You are smart to turn to the great Packrog's might. I hope you don't forget your compression seal. Yes, you better not make the mistake of converting BURNDAYRAZ. He is considered an exp valuable enemy. It just nets you 8 piety, or 5 with the leech. Taurog is giving you happiness. Why would you not choose the level 7 minotaur who has less hp. No, you should stick to level 7's. You don't have nearly enough. Unless you throw away your popcorn for hp, it's going to be very difficult to hit 97. Nice job! As unintuitive as that was, I agree with what you did. Congratulations on thinking outside the box. Okay, that wasn't so smart. You need to save SOME popcorn. NO! STOP RIGHT NOW! NOW THE MAGIC IMMUNE BOSS WILL FULLY HEAL AND YOU ARE OF TAUROG! YOU HAVE TO THINK! You just made the dungeon effectively twice as hard because of a rash, spur of the moment, not thought out decision. You could have avoided this whole thing and scored feeling parched. Why do you hate getting feeling parched. WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?! Why would you throw away a mid fight level up? You could have gotten two mid fight level ups and been only 14 damage short of killing the goblin jerk. Meh, Taurog doesn't get that angry. You have to REALLY not be paying attention to get punished by Tauorg, unless you intentionally convert some of his gear. Heck, your rogue almost has average hp. Just two more kills and he will! No, you don't the popcorn you kill will compensate for the fireballs. It's only 2 piety. Seriously, he won't get THAT angry. He isn't very easy. It's 5 solid hits from the boss. A mid fight level up (?), some fireballs., and a first strike hit should be plenty. Why would you fireball when you don't need to. This is not easier than HHoS. For a veteran player, HHoS is a much easier dungeon. You just don't have the same skill set as a veteran. Seriously, the better you get at regen fighting, the more of a joke the indomitable becomes. I've killed him at level 4.
KEY POINTS: Never kill one bodyguard unless you can see the other. Packrog is unstoppable. When you have a choice between killing more valuable popcorn vs less valuable (and in this case damaging) popcorn, always choose LESS VALUABLE. Always precast (pre-use?) the strength potion, so you also get your full magical resources against the enemy. An exp valuable enemy is any enemy without the "No Experience" trait.
Part 62: I agree with you. Do it until it's done. It may be just doing the same dungeon over again, but every run is unique. Each class makes you play differently unless you use Taurog (Read: CLICK TILL IT DIES!), and there are so many random elements that it is so different ever. Southern Swamp it is the easiest dungeon in the game (not counting Hobbler's Hold). Seriously, you have an issue with plants. Why would you take a piece of popcorn over 10 or so mana burn plants that are ALL in the way. Binlor is the god of all wall destroying happiness. Actually, he gives you PISORF. His first boon gives you ENDISWAL for 35 piety. You pushed him into a "flyable" as the devs named them. "Flyables" are the uncrossable, indestructible terrain that is usually represented by liquid (water, lava, etc) or a pit of spikes (or whatever that red stuff is). PISORF only does damage if you push something into a wall or another enemy. Generally when playing Binlor you should immediately get ENDISWAL as fast as you can. Yeah, you never had a shot against the meat man. Wow, you moused over every boon except the one that gives you ENDISWAL. That was rather amusing. You can't beat that meat man. ACCEPT IT! You can beat a level 3 enemy at best without any more boosters/glyphs/items. The boss is always the same. That's partially why it's so easy. There, now the level 4's are good targets. This is painfully amusing. You just threw away a health potion, and you've foolishly limited yourself to PISORF. You should target the level 6 gorgon. You can't quite beat the level 7 snake (which you pushed into blackspace). TT is the yellow god. He's a fun one. Probably my favorite god of all. THE CRUSADER! YES! UNLOCK HIM! You need to score 100 piety to get the crusader to talk to you. You seriously overvalue poison. His best boons are Tikki's Edge and Reflexes. Tikki loves APHEELSIK. If you didn't want BURNDAYRAZ, I'd take it. PISORF is designed to be a pain until you purchase ENDISWAL. If you gain max piety now you can get the crusader! You aren't even close to that level 8 zombie. Why would you convert to TT before a big fight. You should always convert RIGHT before you score a big kill. Be careful. If TT punishes you you are basically screwed. I told you, the poison boon is inconsequential. You only score a piety for the FIRST hit on each monster, and it amounts to basically one tile per level of poison. You're screwed. Two hits and he punishes. Wow that was close. I'm so glad you were paying attention to piety. I'm glad you understand how TT is best played. He poisons you. You may get the kill, but it will leave you poisoned. There is no point in using APHEELSIK against a poisoner. You already get that 1 piety from the poison boon, and using ENDISWAL scores the extra hit. NO! USE ENDISWAL TWICE SO YOU CAN SURVIVE AN EXTRA--DANG! You are cursed, so no matter what he does enough to kill you. YOU ARE EXPLORING?! YOU ARE CURSED! PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU HAVE ON YOU! Lol, you would have survived that. YOU'RE CURSED! That was a terrible overall result. He didn't even level you. No, you are fine. You can beat that boss handily with what you already have. If you use Reflexes this will be even easier. You should be able to score two mid fight level ups if you don't waste popcorn. Which, of course, is what you immediately did. If you are trying to get close to leveling, DO NOT USE POPCORN TO DO SO. Do good reasonable fights to get close, then popcorn to make the 1-5 exp remaining, so you can score TWO mid fight level ups. You cannot regen fight a two level higher zombie without BURNDAYRAZ. You've thrown away so much popcorn that I'm crying on the inside. WHY DO YOU LIMIT YOURSELF TO 1 MID FIGHT LEVEL UP? WHY, OH WHY, OH WHY?! Dodge is not that valuable. Reflexes is more valuable in almost every fight (every fight under 20 attacks). Scholar's Pack is the late game pack. It makes your mid fight level ups vs the boss very valuable, especially later in the game. It is the difference between one and two hits. Take reflexes. Good. Here's the 5 second explanation of both potions: You use it and get an extra hit. Why would you not use your excess mana on ENDISWALs? There. See, easy. Reflexes is an awesome boon.
KEY POINTS: Never level up with remaining mana unless you literally cannot use it. DO NOT LIMIT YOURSELF TO 1 MID FIGHT LEVEL UP. Look at taking early god boons. Seriously, you practically only consider late game potential, which is about 10% of the stuff gods can give you. And it isn't even the best 10%. Binlor's first boon provides ENDISWAL for 35 piety. I recommend it.