Lol, I played today's one like a snail. I wanted to roflstomp the boss with ~maxing out MR, but the monster layout was really bad for Pirosorf piety farming. I overexplored quite a bit, so I had to convert out of Binlor. Funny that all my MR I stacked up was basically pointless since I ended up lifesteal stacking under Dracul
And here's yesterday's writeup if anyone is interested:
Orb of Lusory was placed close to the start, so my 1st plan was going nuts on magical attackers. Had an early Wonafyt, when I summoned 2 AAs that's when I decided it's CP fodder. I'm notorious for playing parched with everything everywhere, so my general Vamp play consists of Converting a Glyph + 2 potions whenever I can
My other early Glyphs were Burndayraz, and Cydstepp, and I quickly decided to ditch everything except the latter due to the monster composition. And anyways having high lifesteal from the start really pays out for a Vamp.
I can't help it, but my fave part in DD is pulling really high level kills without consumables, so by lvl4 I was slaying a lvl8 AA. When I killed a nice Warlock and lvl9 AA it hit me that I'm destroying my best potential bloodcows. So instead of murdering the Indomitable I just stripped his DPs and left him for health supply. Was an awesome help with ~12/200 ? stats and his 10 regen made him recover fast.
Unfortunately holding back on juicy kills made it harder to level. There were Steel Golems as well, but getting hit too much by them would have cost popcorn, so I tried to dispose them when the level gap was smaller or when I even overleveled them.
When I found my sub I was happy to see Brandonn, so keeping the SS wasn't for nothing afterall. Sadly I killed most of my monsters near altars and had no Wonafyt anymore, so the only source of piety left was kills. The lack of Wonafyt was a bit of a nuisance when I tried to reach my secret sub as well. The only neaby monster was a lvl6 steel golem. It was a cool melee/CP boost get the blacksmith sub.
From my regular sub I wanted the Dwarven Gauntlets, and my piety reached 50 just when I slayed my last good bloodcow during the bossfight. Originally I wanted to win parched, but Brandonn gave extra potions and I couldn't resist using my manapotions + sanguine to go Warlord.
In the end I won unstoppable with plenty of bloodpools left.