I know ~'(^ + ^)'~ is working on Daemonic Library, and Vicious Steel may appeal to more players as a more straightforward (though still quite hard) map, and well we all know VGT is not necessarily even possible; so I decided to load up my old Kingdom where Naga City is unlocked, and see if I can do that. Naga City is quite fun in this challenge, because Purist makes the topside quite difficult (no altar... no shop preps...
), whereas Vicious Token makes the Arena rather difficult (boosts boss stats considerably from the nominal 120% difficulty - for example, health by +67%!!).I had three classes in mind (Wizard / Tinker / Crusader), though went with Wizard mostly because that kingdom's Veto slots are aligned for a castery quest item pool, and I would've had to re-locker them for the other classes' hybrid/melee approach.
Took a couple of tries, and yes I know I broke my own rule and used something I already used before (*bad* Tinker!
). Anyway, I hope for forgiveness. 
Now, I'm normally leaning towards Gnomes on Naga City. However, going in Purist, I could not rely on any of the juicy options like Quest Items prep, Whupaz/Schadenfreude, extra mana boosters, etc. Plus, given how there's no altar topside, you'll only start worshiping Mystera after you descend and pay 20 gold (normally, that's after the first bosskill). A Gnome Sorcerer with full preps would have an 50%+ winrate on VT Naga City, but that requires hitting the sweet spots (big mana pool, plus enough refills); Wizard can bring down the glyphs that can be used for Mystera's Refreshment, but a Gnome would depend heavily on shop luck topside (whereas an Elf can just pull a sizable manapool from basically thin air).
I took what I found and abused it (Martyr Wraps + PISORF, mostly), and I still had to improvise towards the end to get the additional 80 or so Mana I was missing to finish the last bosses and defeat Kinisssch. Needless to say how much easier the whole run would've been had I found Metal Spider Temple, or chance upon a Crystal Ball, Dragon Soul, or perhaps just a simple Keg of Mana topside. That said, when I saw Mage Plate, I knew I had something, and I rolled with it.
You are amazing! I was just thinking how "impossible" NC would be, with the massively beefed up HP and Damage of bosses and you just prove that it is achievable. Hats off to you! 
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