The only guide I have is outdated as fuck, but generally if you're having trouble with combat just play Warrior and have the perception to see their next attacks so you can spam tempo when it's safe then guard just before they go on an offense stance. Upgrading Advance is also fairly handy, such as safely deflecting the last offense hit to return to neutral stance. Or just mage, Oil+Inferno should still pop most things in your way. If you need more bonus points, just going for all the early achievements on iron-man mode will get you all your need for three stat points and three perk points. A handy tip is to have a minimum of 5 Perception, and then grabbing Smarter+Surveyor to get hunger charms and the bonus gold/food from chests. Being hurt; having a yellow/red health bar, will lower your perception though and deny you these. Haven't been playing this as much as I used to.
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real secret is just to play thief and steal all the best equipment in the game, and here's a short guide on how thieving works:
You can steal from both town shops except the Outpost. You are caught and raped on the last item you take, but you keep the item. Below is the agility you need and each amount you need to steal more items. Every extra two agility above the minimum adds one extra item you can take before beight caught. You won't be able to steal from that shop again after being caught.It feels like an oversight, but you can get caught stealing from the Merchant and Witch without penalties, the last stolen item will end the encounter however. This may be patched eventually, maybe. Cat Potions, Boots of Running,(Can be upgraded for +1 Agility more) and the Charm of Agility are items which can help stealing by increasing your agility. Potions do not restock in the world however. Two cat potions can be bought from the Travelling Merchant in Sandbox for only 15 gold. As long as you aren't caught stealing, you can return to stores later with upgraded agility and steal more items, but this still needs 2 more agility for every item you've stolen.
First town (Silajam): 6
Second town (Monster Town): 8
Travelling Merchant and Witch: 10
To Clarify; If you have 8 Agility, You can steal an item without being caught from Silajam, and get one more after that but end up caught. You can Steal an item from Monster Town but are caught, and you can't steal from the Merchant and Witch.
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I keep meaning to go back to it and update it but I still haven't actually done a full-clear up to Demon King yet. Also everytime I play again I notice there's actually something I'm waiting for in the next update so I just wait for the update and forget about the game.