Early game golden keys

[thufir]

Uhhh...how exactly is the rope in the snake charmer's cache pointless? As far as I know the only other rope in the game is in the Crystal Mines, which is much, much later even if you beeline for it.

Yeah, on my hard/ironman/singleusecrystal game this was the cache I opened. Didn't want to risk injuries every time I wanted to go down a hole, with healing potions being so necessary for potential errors.

[Spathi]

ahhh, for some reason I thought that nectarbranch was the staff of ruling... bad memory.
I was in no rush to get a good wand as they don't make much difference. The only problem with the orb is the flying insects that came and killed me when I threw the rock.... after 5 hours of not saving on hard/ironman/singleusecrystal, was not fun to die to insects, lol. I should have jumped in the water, but got flustered. I also should have saved after clearing Desarune and graveyard, but too tight with crystals.

So yeah, very disappointed because so many locked choices, but most are worthless and pointless >.<

I agree this game could do with some more heavy and light weapons and different wands and orbs. There were quite a few (except light weapons), but it would not have ruined the game to have even more candy. My favorites are heavy weapons that have one special attack (rather than triple slash), as it is more useful to have one big hit (although ax is worth going for early).