by the way good tip. always use morels and tiny teeth at the beginning for tons of free hp pots. Same with any other hp or mp restore items unless it has a regen effect.
naw, just get enough hp regen berries and slime are great early on. 1 slime per piece on 5 pieces easily takes you to 30. In which you should be able to hit 20 without wings. My playstyle for this is to surpass the next shop then go to the 9th level and use wings. then start back over for max loot, gems, secret stashes, and quick run through. But also using wings every 10 level gives you the ability to buy from the merchant near the inn for a good item to help with the next run and allows you to talk to all townspeople. I maxed out attack tree and put some in gold at the start (being stupid haha) but im going to go for transmute next.