Personally I would try to get your mage as high lvl as you can, and when it gets too difficult either buy better intel gear or make a barbarian (or rogue which is much better for clearing maps since they avoid trap doors) get that to as high of a lvl that you are comfortable at where the kills aren’t too difficult and you can clear the catacombs to get maps (or clear the maps to hopefully get decent items at the end) and continue killing this character at whatever lvl you are comfortable at (in softcore death only affects your proficiency and lowers your exp bar which is what you want so that you don’t reach the next level and this more difficult monsters/bigger catacombs). You can see I have a character with over 20k deaths that I use to search for items and sell those items.

Or you could hop into a group climb and get to lvl 71 in 1-2 hours……but these usually start at lvl 1 and they don’t typically pick up stragglers at other levels….

Grab first….read later…..trash if it’s junk and move on to the next catacomb….=)

ok this is crazy. seems like this mob has millions of hp. Is this a bug or did I encounter ultimate LS boss, lol?

its probably a quest mob called Sneaky. lucky for you only caster damage can kill it

30 minutes later he's at 40% hp

Look at what quests r available, if sneaky is active, try hitting monster with melee, if all attacks r 0, then it's sneaky, if u have four corners quest active, then it could be u went to corner of map and that's the first 1

its most likely sneaky
you need int on your armor and a better charm imo

this one on mp for 422fg:
Mystical ice XIII, Spell Damage: 168 to 201, +135% Enhanced Effect, +4 Strength, +1 to 28 Mana per Kill

yeah I'm working towards better gear
there's only one armour with 20+ int for my level and its 100 fg too.

I'll get there eventually

took me almost an hour to kill this thing was hoping for better drop tbh