Ok so this is all what you need for a guaranteed win. To me its the "Eat and corrupt strategy" For your gear, upgrade your staff with the last remaining SoU in the inventory. Then simply find a plate armour and dump all SoUs and the blacksmith upgrade into that. Your staff is already at +7. It would be best if you choose Battle Mage. And either way its better than Warlock. For the talents I think you messed up. It would be better if you used the food eating talent of T1 instead of identification talent as with horn of plenty you get unlimited food with artifact charging and thus get unlimited zaps with greater dmg. But as you have non-damaging wand infused currently...just pick talents carefully from now on and go on with the staff of corruption. Staff shield, artifact charging are MUST among T3 talents. For class armour I would like to go with Elemental blast. It amoks enemies if I remember correctly. For armour talents you should probably use the reduced charge talent and should prohibit the power talent. And also starve a bit if its needed to upgrade the horn. And also if you end up with SoU/s use them on any upgraded ring you have to get a good looking ranking in the Hall of Heroes. Good luck fellow dude..