Learn From My Sanctum of Odin Experience

I've recently cleared the entrance floor + 1st floor of odin solo and learned a few things. Decided I'd share them.

0. Don't do odin before you got at least a chest of green weapons. You won't get much far.

1. Make sure to bring a bunch of support staffs and keep it in second hand at all times. You can use the healer skills to heal when you need. Also keep food items in the third slot when your main weapon has good durability, otherwise keep another main weapon.

2. Bring all kinds of weapons and white armor. You can bring white melee weapons, green melee weapons, ranged weapons. You can attack draugrs and weak draugrs with white melee weapons and any other melee draugrs / magic draugrs with green melee weapons. I read that shovels were the most efficient ones, so mostly I used them.

3. Against bow draugrs, attack with a green weapon until your health drops down to 60. Then switch to the staff, run away to the entrance, activate the skills and exit. Eat food while running away if entrance is too close for the skills to charge. Heal, enter back, and attack the draugr again. Repeat as many times as needed.

4. Use ranged weapons against giants (I find defense staffs the most convenient). Run around in circles hitting them when you get distance from them. Stone giants have a directional smash skill. Against them, you can use melee weapons as well. Run away from them drawing arches/zigzags (Like, don't run away in as straight line. Change your direction while running to keep a close distance between yourself and the giant so that it can't hit you, but you can quickly run back when it starts its skill and start hitting.) If you're quick enough to turn back, you can land 3 hits each time.

5. Use Ruckus' guides (u/ruckus46) to kill the giant's chief. The only thing I did differently is hitting it 3 times each time instead of 2. (You need to be quick) For the necromancer, you can use Ruckus' guide, or you can run around the circular room near the beginning and use ranged weapons.

6. Make sure you're behind enemies using skills while dodging them. If you're inside them or touching them, you might get hit.

7. Only keep 1 or 2 weapons + support staff + only the armor set you're wearing on yourself. Stash everything else in a chest. That way they'll not lose durability if you die.

8. Don't use corpses as storage. They disappear. You'll lose everything in them. Don't do it ^(I didn't do that or anything. That'd be stupid. Very Stupid) Edit: Meant your own corpse. But don't use enemy corpses neither to be safe.

9. Don't try to pull off risky stunts to save time / durability. If you die, that's a bigger loss.