for me, taking that critter down with pure melee is nuch more fun. As I have said many times on these taverns, I only use magic for healing, buffs, and travel.A l50 or so party of Gladiator, Assassin, Assassin, Priest with the Gladiator dual wielding Articaft Spear and Sword, the
Assassins dual wielding daggers (two of which are artifact types) and a Blade skill of 20+ can also do 1000HP damage per turn also (the Assisins with a high GM Blade Skill get 15-20 strikes per turn and the Gladiator with GM Spear and Sword gets 3 strikes with both the Sword and the Spear).
As I said not for everyone, but works well for me.
The thing I have always found odd is that for a monster with 30,000HP you get no XP for killing it!