I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
And with a combo I had no hope for and barely trained for (like, less than 10 tries I think?) !!!!
I was banging my head for weeks, trying to make the Half-troll work, and this is the combo that did it. I didn't expect the explorer to be so powerful, but pairing it with a Half-troll really helped. I got really unlucky a few floors higher, as I got hit by a trap that nuked my jewelry and resistances, but I managed to survive. By the last few floors I said 'fuck it' and just dived down to floor 30.
I honeslty don't know if a combat-focused character could make it aside an Assassin or an Archer. The way I won this one was with the Basilisk trap. And on the last remaining use, no less :)
I also got incredibly lucky with my items this time, especially with the Everywhere Shard, which was a godsend to access ladders across pools of acid and escape some difficult fights.
I was afraid Friviaskus would be suboptimal for the job, but he was exaclty what I needed. Crystallize for the early game and Ascend for the rest. The nyou pair it with vortex rings + the Explorer's leg up perk, and I stayed on floor 10-15 for the vast majority of the run.
