So I want the trisword, but I am having a lot of trouble with the Warlord challenge. I've made multiple attempts without even approaching victory. First attempt I rolled up my normal human warlord not knowing what to expect. I found the poison glyph and tried for an attrition strategy, only to learn the boss absorbs everyone after the first hit. Then I got trapped on my second time. Third try I explored half the level before finding my first enemy on a lower level than five.
I really have no idea how to even begin doing this and it is rather frustrating. It looks like I can prep a thief thing and a mage thing, so I took the smuggler's den for extra exploration. Maybe fireball magnet to kill revenants?. I am usually a human warlord, but maybe gnome would be better in this case, since it seems like I need about a million Cydstepps.
I don't want to sound like a whiner, but with my current skill level this challenge does not seem even vaguely feasible. I haven't even between the Hex ruins with a a warlord regularly. Asking me to do a harder version with gimped preparation feels completely unreasonable. Considering the fact that most of the class challenges can be unlocked when you are still wandering around the den of danger, the difficulty curve here is really extreme. It would be okay if I was just doing it for the challenge, but putting a really good item behind it is just...extremely frustrating.