Preserver + Gladiator route. Only one gladiator now, dual wielding Els Drinker + Bloodwrath. Preserver only just dings level 9 late in the ruins now that the castle and Wyrmias statue quests are skipped.

Used a long first wall of fire in the final batter rather than the former stone wall strat. Much faster Cedrilte + fast Gedron by just killing them all (credit to CaptainCatnip for that strat). Tequetzal main quest acceptance and Lods setup skipped in favor of just running up and back to Gedron on foot.

Ugly RNG in the sewers getting gladiator webbed and having to cancel auto-combat to get out. Early aggrod the villages in Cedrilte which ended up working against me with villager flee combat rounds and I got a bit disoriented in Cedrilte in general after that. Ruins a bit slow with all mastyrials getting into combat and a missed attempt at running past.

Final battle wave 1 was the biggest time loss after getting locked into combat mode straight away. I'm still confused as to how I got stuck in combat mode. Thankfully gladiator had haste still active from the ruins so was able to rush through the firewall, and clean up the casters pretty quick. Smooth wave 2.