For the record, the DoT was applied by a Diggle Geologist, and killed me three turns after I killed it

Hard agree on the "no melee in lategame", I just wiped a solid run on floor nine, somehow ended up taking a DoT that killed me in four turns from full HP. I'm still salty. I wish I'd paid more attention to the combat log but there's so much going on at that point it just goes and goes and goes

Additional tips:
-Enemies prioritize your minions in melee, protecting you from the dreaded counter-crit-crit.
-Consumables are destroyed when "stolen" by enemies. They target the entire stack, too.
-Some enemies can damage your magical equipment.
-Thieves and magic-corrupting enemies have no counter chance (untested on Going Rogue.)
-Certain enemies have a chance to use ranged attacks. Beware an unlucky volley of shots!

I started play again after a long time and wanted to add that the camera has a drain life effect, in that it heals you for all 'living' enemies it hits.

dont forget to list the fungal mancy mushrooms ;3 some of the most useful ingrediants in the game

wow this will come in handy. I have SO MANY ITEMS just chilling in my wizard space from a years old playthrough where I am slowly making by way all the way down these huge floors. think I was on floor 14 last I played. never seen the boss yet lol but this save, altho slow, is my best run yet. so many traps and wands built up

Very nice to read this thankyou!

Some things that might be useful (though some may seem obvious or pointless, it's still useful to know):
-if you drop any steak (fresh, aged, or normal) onto a grill it becomes grilled steak, which gives more health when eaten (and more ground meat when ground up).
-the nth dimensional lathe is useless without the wand lore skill, though whether the wand lore skill is worth taking depends on how much you use wands
-you can pick traps up off the floor when your trap affinity is high enough, even if you can't craft the traps
-abilities that trigger when killing monsters (such as the ones in blood mage, big game hunter or fungal arts) trigger when you attack your pets too, so you can summon and slaughter your own minions if you run low on supplies (or are just very sadistic)
-cheese items usually lose 1-2 hp of total healing when grated

Great guide! Thanks!

Ah, don't forget the tentacle wand and pearlescent wands, they're good too. Tentacle wand does hefty damage as well as confuse the enemy (great for bosses), while the sheer Righteous damage of a Pearlescent wand is a great way to hurt Snow Baals around floor 7.

Mushrooms are really handy, and taking the fungal arts skill makes them plentiful to the point of using your favorites for every single fight. Confuse enemies with Odious Puffballs, toughen up with Grunge Ear, The Prince, Lobstermane Fungus and Plumber's Agaric, restore health and mana with Fairywodgers and Night Cap respectively, hit harder and steal health with Fell Fungus and Greedy Blungecap, be smarter with Azure Mob-Bonnet, and go invisible with Inky Hoglantern.