Yeah, Curare darts finally found on skeleton while mass farming flies on depth 7 and then 6 when I reached level 12 (shamans from depth 7 give XP until Hero reaches level 15, what is too much for flies farming), with Plate armor +5 (found it +3!) and uncursed Knuckleduster -2 (I renamed it “Swarm Splitter” ^^). And when I say “mass farming”, I mean it: 74 Potions of Healing, it took me the entire afternoon yesterday (for once, it’s different from the 5-or-less-minute games I usually have…)

I can only imagine the sheer multitude of flies you congested those floors with. Anyways, congratulations! Too bad you got those darts after the nerf... :P

Sure it’s too late, thus I sold them to Mr Shopkeeper. ^^ BTW the Flies Killer is Huntress, so she could have equip those darts.

I started playing this game after the latest update, and I absolutely love it!  The graphics make this more enjoyable for me than any other roguelike game, and I think the difficulty is perfect.  I think that if it were easier, then I wouldn't get as much pleasure out of finding excellent gear, beating the game, and winning badges.

I think that having an Ankh that basically lets you live forever, and being able to farm inordinate amounts of health potions takes the "roguelike" out of "roguelike game". In my opinion, if you want to play a game in which you can ensure your victory by  spending exhorbitant amounts of time leveling and farming, then roguelike dungeon crawls aren't really the right genre for you.  If you want hone your skills to have the greatest chance of survival and success working with different gear, then I think this game and its difficulty are perfect!

I hope the next update, includes deeper floors and a new boss.  Thanks Watabou for making this awesome game!

You can rename weapons?

It seems from experience that the Ankh is a bit useless.

Even inordinate farming isn’t enough, as it’s still pretty easy to be killed in a blink. In addition, that behavior is imposed by the latest update: With previous updates, you could explore the dungeon floor by floor and, when short in Potions of Healing, go back to depth 7 in order to get 5 or 6 potions and then back to lower floors; Now you’re obliged to farm as much as you can before exploring the rest of the dungeon, because once you reach too high level, you’re potion stock will only inexorably decrease (except with great luck, but don’t count on it).

Skills are not very useful, only luck is: If you don’t found a Plate armor (or at least an upgraded Scale armor) before depth 3, you’re doomed to death. I don’t like pure gambling games like Game of the Goose or Snakes and Ladders, but it’s the case of more than 90 % of my exploration tries…

Watabou said that there won’t be new floors and bosses, the Amulet of Yendor is the endpoint.

Sure I can, I’m a Hero! If you read French, it’s what Kalon actually does! :p

I infer from your post that you've never used the ankh out of disdain. Ankhs are definitely not a source of immortality... upon death, the ankh will ressurect you, but it's then removed from your inventory. Since there's only 4 shops in the game, with one ankh apiece, you can ressurect up to 4 times (if you manage to get to each shop... a challenge in itself). Of course, since anything that's in your inventory is destroyed (food, potions, scrolls, wands, gold, etc..), resurrection puts you in such a dire position that you're highly likely to die again. There's a reason that most people do not waste their gold on it.

Right.  I was under the impression that in earlier versions, the Ankh remained in your inventory.  I assume this is how someone, A C P L ??, achieved a level 44 character by farming Dwarf Lord Skeletons. He claimed he died 6 times.

I agree that it is 90% luck. As you said in another post about the frequency of successful games being: Warrior 1/7, Rogue 1/12, Mage 1/15, and Huntress 1/20.  However, unless you have some dungeon crawl wisdom, you will never beat this game on luck alone.