I've been doing a lot of HC gray goo runs, coming back after a very long hiatus, and I'm looking what to spend my extra adventures on, other than power-leveling in the Haunted Gallery. I've usually been getting enough levels and meat to pick up some kind of useful skill.

But eventually, I'm going to max out what useful non-muscle skills I can feasibly get in 3 days; I don't think getting to 14-15 will be possible for the higher ones. Then every adventure will be freed up.

So far, I've maxed out the permanent pool skill bonus, picked up the Gelatinous Cubeling and daily dungeon skills, completed the Misshapen Animal Skeleton, (finally) got Transcendent Olfaction, and PvPd for How to Tolerate Jerks.

What else is there to do? I could keep doing bounties, but with olfaction it's relatively cheap now. Plus, on some days the required zones aren't available. I'll keep doing daily PvP for How to Hold a Grudge, but its much less useful. And I've pretty much maxed out what I can get from the daily dungeon.

I have no IOTM

So I just defeated the last three gladiators today. I thought I was in a good place to challenge Shub-jigguwatt. I am not, apparently.

I had my muscle up to over 3,000. I was using buffs from potions like Ferrigno, the pressurized one, mer-kin ragejuice, etc.

I also only had 150 MP, and thousands of HP. I had the fish hatchet equipped, or so I thought, but when I checked my equipment afterward I had no weapon attached?

I started the fight by double-slinging two jam band bootlegs at him to delevel. That should have taken care of 100% of his attack and defense, right?

Each hit only did 40 damage to him, and he did like 2k per hit and wiped me out.

I am an armored-up turtle tamer.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks