Just some things I learned living and dying in the dungeon
- how to attack, dude? Same as you move, use your numpad's 7,9,1,3 to move and attack diagonally(numlock on) Diagonal means for example you have an enemy is left and above you. Read weapon descriptions(press i and move with arrows in the menu), daggers for example give you additional damage if you attack diagonally.
- Other players messages sometimes lie to you. some players are trolling you. Also I noticed that item types and locations may change over time. so if someone leaves a "bad magic" or trap warning it may or may not be true.
- wands, scrolls, potions and pendants can be BAD, like really bad. if you want to risk activating try to do it when you have cleared the level and you are standing next to the stairs. If you summon gas or monsters with your item you can escape to the next level. second best is testing standing next to water, but that only saves you from fire.
- Reveal scrolls effect: I usually wait till I get the scroll that reveals your inventory to see what scroll does what. Since v1.5 you can collect unlimited potions and scrolls, so inventory space is not an issue.
- Reveal potions effect:Potions are more easy, just throw at a monster, the effect will be displayed on the bottom . If you press shift+k you will now see that potions effect is revealed. just make sure you throw from a distance to be abel to run away if gas/fire spreads out.
- Reveal wands effect: I usually just shoot at a wall. 3 wands can be bad for you: conjuring, fire and the one that halves your life. there is a risk, but I generally want to know if the wand is worth the inventory space or not as most of the wands are simply useless.
- Reveal pendandt effect: same as wands.
- drop unused clothes and armor. Keep weapons , even bad ones so you can throw them to damage enemies.
- collect daggers , and try to save as many as you can for the higher levels. You will need to take down enemies with corrosive, paralising effects from a distance.