by Salvia Hardon on Tue Nov 24, 2015 6:02 pm
First vamp run. Had zero hopes of doing anything valuable XP wise, but just happy I made it out alive with a dozen blood pools, and 2 health pots to spare.
Found the tri-sword, fire heart, and vampiric blade shops easily enough with the WEYTWUT and BURNDAYRAZ glyphs and allowed myself to become perma-cursed by level 3. I normally don't like fire heart at all, but it was extremely valuable for this vampire run.
Where I might have screwed up was not using any conversion fodder before becoming perma-cursed, so I was stuck at base lifesteal + vamp blade until I killed the cursed shade. This meant that I could only maintain 2 blood cows at most, since there was a small level band between getting effective lifesteal, and outright killing bandits/dragon spawn. Getting 4 conversion levels worth of glyphs upon leaving was much appreciated for finishing off the boss, although I only had 3 lifestealable targets at that point.