I felt like I made tons of mistakes, but the crazy sustain from Ghoulish Hunger and other procs almost always being up made it so I just didn’t die. I regularly went down a fair bit of health, going below 2000 a few times (would blade barrier/potion/mirror immediately when that happened). But I also saw my health go down to half for a frame before going back up to full quite a bit. I was overall very surprised at how effective I was able to sustain against his fairly bursty damage.
I’ve made some progress on Gladiator crucible. I died once on wave 110 because I wasn’t really paying attention (and my framerate was getting really bad b/c I was recording, making hard to play). Tried to adjust my graphics settings and OBS wonked out - wouldn’t get image from Grim Dawn anymore. I think I’ll get gladiator crucible figured out sometime in the next couple days, assuming I have the time to play. (just evacuated from my house because of the fires in the area - I live in southern california)