I lost today, wasn't feeling good about it when I started, and lost in the end, was also careless and played badly.
Boss only had 4 HP left, I needed 1 more bloodpool to do 1 more hit, I was at 34/35 XP (level 7) and couldn't level up.
I made stupid mistakes. Namely, I killed the Cursed Shade boss when I had 1 Curse stack and immediately when back to the top. At the top, I stupidly killed all the low level mobs (L1) in the Zoo Sub. I should have left at least 1 of them to cure off the Cursed stack which I got later. I didn't know what I was doing, why I hit a L8 Bandit just to go back to the Cursed Realm to pick up the Dragon Soul (ended up I had that 1 curse when I came back with no more mobs to remove it). I wasted some resources to kill the L8 Imp in the other Sub just to cure off my Curse stack. In the end, I lost. Now that I think of it, there is no need to hit the L8 Bandit to go back down just to pick up the Dragon Soul (wasted hitpoints, gave myself Curse for nothing).
There was also another stupid mistake, I bought a Venom Dagger very late. I should have left that gold to buy the Pendant of Health in the end when fighting the boss. Anyway, lots of mistakes today, including also things like wasting my resources to kill a L5 Animated Armour when I was below and preparing to kill the Cursed Shade boss. Should have saved that health for just fighting the boss ...
Anyway, seeing that I am going off for vacation in April, maybe I will just play more casually from now since my steak will be broken again.
Best of luck to everyone else, especially hoping to see Darvin break 100!
