ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Hello!

During the last week or so I've finished many loose ends with my characters and I've now achieved my first seven wins in TOME 4, yay!

However, there is this one mean looking motherfekker made of marble that I've been meaning to a have quiet nice chat with, if you catch my drift, and I plan to go full Garkul II on his sorry ass next.

I wish to be prepared *before* I activate him, so I've been searching for information on this forum/wiki. He seems to have an arcane and acid ranged attacks which hit for 1500 damage. Also he has a very dangerous fire melee attack, am I right? Also lightning and cold seem to be in the mix: are they as damaging as the fire attack? Or are they ranged rune attacks like acid? Are there some other attacks too? I have no idea how damaging Pound or Crush are at talent level 8 but I bet it's not very pleasant even for a bulwark.

Another question is about his damage reflection: is it feasible to try to kill him without taking it out, say, with a shalore bulwark with eternal guard and spectral shield? I don't have dispersion gloves on him (but probably some shop has).

Most of my winners are on roguelike (normal) so I'll only have 1 (or two) chance to try to not screw things up per character. I know ranged characters probably have the edge when taking him out but here are my winners of which I think may the most viable/have any chance:

Dwarf solipsist. With thought-formed warrior active this guy has a mindpower of 101, inner demons 5/5.

Shalore Bulwark. With eternal guard + spectral shield + timeless this character felt invincible against the final bosses. With fiery choker fire res goes to 70 %.

Cornac Marauder/Shalore Berserk. Abusing unstoppable. Cornac marauder could probably even take him out before unstoppable ends? Thuggery with 2,0 mastery gives some nice physical resist penetration.

Sooo, what do you think, do these guys have what it takes? Any general tips on Garkulation of this oversized bookshelf?

Thanks in advance.

He was pretty easy on my dwarf zerker. I died twice solely due to overconfidence, but could've avoided both of those if I was playing more carefully. I just popped blinding speed+other damage cooldowns, unstoppable, rush and hit him for the duration. Then I'd teleport away, run around abit while waiting for cooldowns to reset, using movement infusion if he got close, and repeat. Pretty dull but simple.
My Sun Paladin also killed him, but died once (fortunately had blood of life). Even with all my resists and block he still hit incredibly hard, but what got me was reflected damage. A riposte assault with edge of twilight hit him for 1000s, hit me for the same, procced second life and then I was killed by his own attacks. So careful with the reflect.

I hear that Gloves of Dispersal can get rid of his reflection sustain.

He's not too durable. If you can do unstoppable I think you have really good chances for taking him down, especially on Marauder if you have the yellow dagger that drains mana.

Also I've had good success with range 10 casters as his damaging stuff rarely hits too far.