I concluded(with clear crystal) my pure(no mental changes other than openign rooms) normal run at 117/127 bosses done with only using the collar 1 time on the firestorm dragon just to get the last score point, I only beat the first 3 demonic generals.
It's day 173 and I'm at 63/64 corruption, I could technically dump 12k golds and buy 25 blessed water to extend my run but the number of bosses left and the difficulty to reach them doesn't make it worth it as this run most likely won't beat Richard.
Some noob traps I fell into or errors I made:
-learning Thunderbolt, I could have probably managed to beat the bosses I fought up to then without it and just went for lightning sword which is an insane skill
-I didn't use the slime at all, now I'm not fully sure this is even a noob trap but it probably made some stuff harder than it needed to be, but it's still definitely playable. How to properly build the slime is a topic in of itself
-upgrading attack through the star metal option, the cost of that baloons much faster than just using pyromantium plating at the start. Indeed for most of the game I had excess pyromantium. This leaves me a bit perplexed because it also means I have so much extra star metal that I could dump on the Verdaux blacksmith or maybe even sell, which feels wrong.
-I most likely underused poison coating or any coating outside of the nasty oil one and the MDEF one.
I'm not sure if I will do a NG+ run as Richard's domain is pretty annoying so completing a normal run is not that appealing, but if I did I would take the following NG+ bonuses:
-all stats, they are always useful
-shadowcloak, I need II regardless to not need fire III in the mansion of lust quest and it's also ofc very useful
-lightining sword, might be redundant at times when you have shadow cloak but it's still my only source of lightning damage which basically defeats all humanoid mobs.
-bless item I, not only I think bless Item II is a must to get like extra 12 attack from the coatings or even 45 mdef from the anti dark coating, but having it from the start lets you dump mana into apples or other potions, thus saving you some money
-reading proficiency, 3 end of the days saved is the main buff rather than having it at the start of the game.
-light I, a bit silly but it's 1 end of the day saved and 100 gold, which to me is worth more than 250 gold and 2 bombs.
All these buffs together would have saved me about 15 days but more importantly 15k golds, perhaps more, which would give space to dump materials I sold into a slime.