Oh cruel fate...

So i've decided to finally give it a second attempt at soloing vanaduke. Made it through the first four levels just fine, and then the duke himself. I carried voltedge, btb, blitz needle, and warmaster rocket hammer. Coupled with two med charge reduction trinkets. Wearing divine mantel and divine veil.
Everything went smooth, vana take a ton of blitz needle, gets his mask wet, etc etc, and then the final stage...
The slags were more annoying than i thought, trying to balance both them and vana, so i decided to blitz as much as i could, when i could.
And it worked... Over time, and a few revs, he finally fell. But then...
Immediatly, out of his fat corpse comes a rushing gaurd, who stabs me in the face and shoves me in a fire. It kills me... And leaves me with a 160 revive fee.
I could not pay it... I solo'd vana... And never got the credit...
But i got a nifty firebreak shield in the previous floor!
I'm pissed...

I get a 2* fire resistant shield? Nifty.
But my only other options were skolver, or valkyrie with fire resistance medium.

I solo'd vanaduke once.
I used only my argent peacemaker.

I tend to solo Vana when I can't get party from my guild or I want to have a challenge. If you have the Ancient Set, use it. It reduces to like, 4-6 bars of damage the Spear attack.
Also, kiting Vana with a Polaris in the last stage is the most safe strategy, as most bullets when exploding will pass through the fireball barrier.

Keep moving in circles and you'll be saying..'what slag guards?'
That's what you get for bringing no normal defense.