I finally collected enough courage (and skills) to try the second monk guild quest, the embodiment of your inner demons.

It proved to be just as hard as I expected, but I managed to kill the embodiment before he killed me and exited the battle with 132 hps.

While I usually clear the embodiment very easily as catfolk or human monktarma, these minotaur monk+animist reincs seem to have harder time killing it. The embodiment was hard for my primary’s earlier minotaur monk+animist+tarma reinc as well.

For reference, as a catfolk or human, the embodiment is killed in about 12..14 rounds and I still have 400+ hps left. (AoA from inner circle might have something to do with it, although this time I “cheated” and used AoA orb created by my primary char.)