"You don't need to kill every monster on the floor, that's just reasonable."
Haha, I know! I totally agree! It's silly to waste HP like that. Haha... (compulsively kills every single monster on every floor)
i lost my whole game... while the game was still playing. i was almost to final phoenix and left the game running for a while. then suddenly all my stats are gone and i was back to the rolling pin weapon. i couldn't buy something worth just 30 gems, but it said i had 2754. wtffff.
I noticed that as I got to higher levels, I would die or use escape wings and be faced with difficult monsters (since shopkeeper levels are checkpoints). If you would like to have a stronger warrior as you get up to these levels, you can keep fighting and get as many artifacts, stat boosts, etc. as possible until level 8, then use escape wings. The more you do this, the stronger you will be at later levels, and it'll be easier to fight the harder monsters at later shopkeeper checkpoints.
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