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You can and probably should run from Death, it is literally the toughest enemy in the game and even with amazingly powerful stats it will still be hard to kill off.

If you really want to kill it, just carry a ton of blast arrows, and use 4 conqueror's periapts as well...blast arrows are heavy but buy a ton of them and have your pawns carry them and then take them when you need them. Death will flee each time you knock down one of his health bars, just keep moving on and he'll show up again with a reduced health bar.

As for BBI armor/weapons/gear, level 3 is the best. It's a complete RNG crapshoot. To finish BBI post-daimon You'll really want some top-tier vocation skills like brain splitter, and some top tier armor and weapons. You'll also want to get it all gold-tier dragonforged. And yeah only the weapons/armor that you have will have a chance to be dragonforged...annoying if you are a vocation like strider that can't wear much gear for a mage/sorceror pawn. There are some decent armors that can be worn by most classes though.

If you are sticking with strider, the fire bow you can get from a moonstone door is really good, and there's a good ice bow behind another door that a ranger can use.

As for where to find BBI level 3 stuff, it's scattered around a bit, and usually appears in the same places every time...I think just look in every nook and cranny and pick everything up that you can. There's a lot of hidden stuff in BBI, like you can get to a bunch of hidden hallways with loot up above that early fountain courtyard where a cyclops and goblins appear, and any church-ish area has a bunch of blocked-off loot areas up at the top that you have to double jump to.