It can be really helpful. You can craft exotic variants of scrolls and potions as well as even some advanced spells.
Craft meat pies whenever you can as it blocks hunger for like 150 turns or something and boosts passive healing as well. Mystery meat (raw or cooked) + ration + pasty.
If you have a lot of seeds you can craft potions as well but don’t waste the green seeds in crafting because in their raw form they will heal you more slowly and you can’t move off them (unless you’re the Warden) but the raw seed form has better healing properties than wasting 3 green seeds to make a single healing potion.
If you’re low on health and not in combat, find a safe place like a hallway or small room and plant a green seed, step on it and hold the wait button. It will go until you’re healed, starving, or an enemy shows up. Save your actual healing potions for emergencies. As a side note on that, balance your food and healing item consumption – wait to eat if you have a lot of health and vice versa, if you’re low on healing items, avoid letting yourself starve too long as that blocks passive healing.
General
Rogue has invisibility right away, great for tight situations and moving about undetected.
Huntress can move around in tall grass without trampling and later can grow back tall grass and see through tall grass. Pairing this with glyph of camouflage can make her even more stealthy than the rogue mid to late game. Wand of Regrowth if you can find it, basically turns her into a god.
Duelist can wield multiple weapons and certain weapons can offer brief invisibility though it has been heavily nerfed. She also has a skill that allows sharing upgrades between the 2 equipped weapons so you only have to upgrade one of them and not waste upgrade scrolls.
Try to save healing potions as much as possible. But drink one if you’re close to death – too many times I roll the dice and die with 10+ healing potions in my inventory.
Same thing but for upgrade scrolls.
Get tier 4 or 5 weapons/armor as soon as possible but don’t neglect a lower tier item if it’s all you have and you’re struggling to deal/block damage. As soon as you get tier 4 or 5 equipment, dump every upgrade scroll you have into them, splitting them about 50-50 between weapon and armor. As a side point, don’t wait for tier 5 if you already have tier 4, tier 4 will carry you to the end just fine if properly upgraded.
At every shop, buy an Ankh if you don’t already have one. Unless you need a scroll of Remove Curse, this should be top priority before buying anything else. Also, bless it ASAP. An unblessed Ankh is almost useless imo.
If you feel like you have a bad seed or things are turning sour pretty early on, don’t be afraid to just restart. Sometimes seeds just suck.
Doors aren’t the only way to surprise attack enemies, one of the examples is that you can circle the enemy around the untrampled tile of grass and it will surprise the enemy each time, you can use that against Goo if you are lucky enough to have tile(s) of grass available in the level, it makes it pathetic.
You can partially “identify” equipment, for example you have 11 STR and unidentified Tier 2 weapon you are sure is not cursed (square blue if its not) and if you can surprise attack enemies, therefore its +1 (or more), if you can’t surprise attack and see the circle partially fill up, then its not upgraded/not meet the requirement.
With armour for example you have 12 STR and Mail armour which usually requires 14, you need to pay attention to the circle on the screen which appears in the corner every time you move/action, if it fills 1/6 of itself when you move, then its upgraded +1/+2 and you are 1 STR away from using it effectively, if it fills more than that, then it is not upgraded.
Potion that drops from the Flies/Necromancers/Bats is always Potion of Healing.
Skeletons, Prison Guards, Gnoll Brutes have a chance to drop upgraded equipment. I remember that at one point i’ve got Plate Armour +3 (!) from the Prison Guard.
So if you can afford to identify them, do that, you might get lucky that you got something upgraded.
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