Gnome Bloodmage, Southern Swamp
Vampire Chef subdungeon really early. Slowed me down a lot. Really obnoxious subdungeon, and this map was highly winnable without it.
I hardly used any of the class traits at all. Never used BLUDTUPOWA. There were too many times that I could simply tank a hit instead of spending all that health on one fireball. Namtar's Ward got some use, though. I prepped health and mana boosters, skipping over Flame Magnet in favor of Balanced Dagger; I figured I'd still have something to do if BURNDAYRAZ was hiding. Namtar's made it too easy to get mostly +2lvl kills, though.
I ended up PISORFing the boss with a big stack of mana potions. All those stacks of Sanguine could've been nice for something or other, but it was a one-boss dungeon and I didn't even take any hits after the initial level-up heal. I did use the pools to get Unstoppable, because it just feels right to kill them all.