Beacon as a mage armor ability is also super useful (used it on my pacifist ascent). You can upgrade it to be placed a good distance from you. You will need a ring of energy and/or scrolls of mystical energy to keep your armor energy topped up. And also a ton of teleportation scrolls, stones of blink, and healing.

I have 18/634 (about 2.9% win rate), mainly because when I beat the game one way, i want to make it harder. So a lot of the deaths are from me trying to win 7 challenges after ascending with 6 challenges three times. I think the average would not really be telling anything because of the difference in playstyles.

As I was saying, the part with the HP obscured is a me problem - with shattered glass at the top of my screen. My point was that it would be nice to add the black rectangle on top, when the fullscreen is turned off.

It’s similar on my phone (Motorola moto g42) in the way that fullscreen off affects only the bottom part of the display. No issues with cutouts though. (only that I have shattered the most upper part of my display, and I am unable to decipher my HP with the current fullscreen on or off. But that’s on me I guess 😆)

You can manipulate which inventory expansion appears in the shop. The game picks the one that will free up the most space in your inventory, so just drop some stuff at boss level depth so the type of items you have most of are the targeted.

Normal weapon damage doesn’t increase with surprise attacks. It’s this way only with dirk and assassin blade. But yes, lunging through doors is still useful.

I don’t see that written in the ability description

Lunge always hits, so there is no need to add a surprise attack

Okay, I will use direct messages with possible future bug reports. I just saw others doing it this way as well, didn’t know what was better.

Wait, how exactly do you have 320 health?

That’s not the problem. I am not talking about the scrolls themselves. I know they are random each game. When you open the description, their symbol doesn’t show up. I wrote that, actually - i said “the arrow” or “the butterfly”. I am talking about this:

The “guy” from wand of living earth?

Oh, I actually didn’t know that enemies don’t drop loot when you are ascending… I ascended only a few times.

Just speculating, but maybe a gnoll shaman dropped it when you killed him without noticing (“you hear something die in a distance” in chat).

One more thing to consider are “on eat” effects… In some situations I’d rather have 3x8 turns of recharging and a bit of alchemical energy in place of healing (as a mage)

Maybe it takes a turn to update the floor, so it’s actually aware of itself being water?

Got to +15, but had them equipped all the time. I used only reforge with the blacksmith, on my armor and ring. Def a fun challenge!(But the ascent was quite tedious…)

Blast wave doesn’t work on phantom piranha, as far as I know. They just teleport the moment you hit them. Chains should work though…

Absolute madlad… You have my respect

I’m here to report it’s not that bad. Maybe I just got lucky, but I managed to beat the game second try with this challenge. (Just because the first time I got a wand of transfusion on floor two and quit :D). Warden with camouflage. Finished with 14 healing pots. I did use reforge for rings and armor though, it does not say “upgrade”, when you do it 🫣 (and I forgot). But I think it would be very much doable without it. The barkskin and infinite invisibility are an unbelievable combo.

Nice idea nonetheless, after finally beating six challenges a week ago, it was nice not to have them active 😆.