I have to say I'm not quite sure which style to use - If you have chaotics I believe melee is better than range, but I don't have elaborate knowledge on that. For armour, generally just take the best mage defence you can get. Not karil's - If you die, it breaks automatically, so you'd waste money with that. If you find you're having problems, you could train for ganodermics, but you should be able to do it without. Take a spirit terrorbird to carry extra food. Additionally, take a kyatt pouch and scrolls, also enchant your helm and load it with scrolls. Once your terrorbird is empty, dismiss it, summon the kyatt and spam its attack. It hits fairly often, around 250 usually and can help quite a lot. All specials but the max lp -1 can be evaded. For the clones, you can wait behind a pillar until the clones vanish. This takes a minute, so quite long, but at the same time you can use that time maybe to calm down a bit (if you tend to get hectic in fights) and to manage your inventory, drop empty vials, take food from your terrorbird etc. Possibly do a test run so you can try out evading the specials. If you want to take no chances, I'd say brew&restore flasks are the best way, that should be more than enough to easily get you through the fight.