[Ziggurat]

Another thing I noticed is that, although the Don starts with around 1000 stamina points, you start hitting after a number of rounds when his stamina is still around 800 or so. I think it depends on how fast and agile you are, to some degree, as each party I tried has taken very different amount of times to kill him. After about 5 or 6 rounds, if you can survive that long, you all of a sudden get a hit here and there and it seems to accelerate. Maybe your mythology goes up while fighting so you know your enemy better? Something seems to kick in after a while. Make sure you have cure poisons and heavy heals, use guardian angel or stoneskin (whatever it's called) and the other protections. I even use element shield to raise poison resistance (not sure if it actually helps!). It shouldn't be that hard if your team is level 16 or higher unless you developed them slow. I've never paid the rat bastard. I feel I will need the money for Ferro later. Some of his stuff is 100,000 gold each.