What I've been doing so far is switching to heirloom gear when it's currently higher level than the stuff I have, EG if I am on level 11 and find a level 11 helm with a luck bonus, I switch out of  the level 11 heirloom helm, but switch back to it at level 12 when it has a higher bonus than the helm of luck, since generally I always want the armour bonus over the enchantment, though a  good case could be made that a lower level piece of armour with an earth bonus or a weapon with a fire bonus would be a better bet than higher level vanilla heirloom gear, since earth and fire simply increase defence and attack directly.

I'll be looking forward to it, and to seeing what elemental changes happen, since yes with Earth and fire particularly, it'd be interesting to see them do something else than just add to attack and block as a direct multiplyer.

As for heirloom gear, I do get the idea is to give you a good start, though as heirloom gear levels with you it's often a good way of maintaining bonuses when you yourself level up, since there's no point getting stuck with that level eleven helm of luck when your around level 13 or so, and since pack size is going up it's handy to switch things around.

Hello folks, Liam, it is a backup for when you prestige and start the game again. If you find a piece, it doesn't matter if you sell it or keep it, when restarting the game after eating a pie, you'll load those in your starting pack to help you untill you find something better.
Best regards, Haramir.

Flavor Update 2019

Huge update everyone! Expect bugs lol (sorry, Im just one guy, I can only test so much).

I've set up a wiki for the game to serve as an encyclopedia, you can find that HERE. It is by no means complete, it's a work in progress. Also, I haven't tried using this particular wiki platform on a screen reader. I apologize if it is clunky or non-optimal. If you have another suggestion for it, let me know!

For a list of things that were added or changed, there is a page for updates which you can find HERE

Some things have moved around. The reload event log button might be in a different order if you are cycling through graphics with the g key. And you'll also find a new one that will link you to the wiki.

So the big ticket updates are, a new zone: the pyramid, a handful of new items, including zone-specific items, new enchantments for gear that are zone specific, and a ton of text updates to the events, more immersive narration and a bunch of extra options for the game engine to choose when it presents content.

Again, check the wiki for a full list. If that wiki is unreadable for you all, let me know I'll post up an itemized list here or come up with something else.

EDIT: already fixed a few bugs, if you ran into issues trying to prestige since I put this up, you'll have to refresh and start again, sorry

So the potion is working just not reading out correctly?

hi.

Definitely liking the update, especially the beefed up descriptions, extra interesting items to find  and farer difficulty curve. I just played a game on medium and things were getting tough around scene 180 or so, but not ridiculously , I will try a game on hard next.

I can confirm the same "potion heals zero damage" bug Liam mentioned, it seems to be whenever you heal the last part of your health, also the merchant's prices aren't displaying either which is a miner pest.
Bonus energy prestieging is also still not saving either no matter how much vitali tea I drink, which is mildly disappointing now that there are fatigue based traps.

I encountered two typos a "champion the queen" I fought in a pyramid, who was male, and a "You have entered the the king's tomb" In a pyramid.

I also wonder where the reload event log button has gone? Though with the action buttons at the top of the log reading off the first line or two isn't too hard.

Other than that though, this update is awesome! Thanks for adding in so many of the feature requests, EG gear switching and the like.

Fixed the potion bug, as previously stated, potions were working just the message was wrong. Fixed the merchant buttons. The text on the button was displaying the cost, but the aria-label tag didn't have the cost in it, so the screen reader didn't know.

I fixed Vitali-Tea. Not sure how this slipped by for so long, this apparently has never worked. For the next week, I'm going to put a cheaper version of Vitali-Tea in every Merchant Inventory up until you get 10 of them. Normal Vitali-Tea will still be available at regular price also.

The Reload Event Log button is the last 'graphic'. I forgot the aria tag, so it was reading as something like 'shift plus alt plus less graphic' in NVDA. Fixed that label so it now says 'Reload Event Log, newest first'. Also access key < for that. Eventually there will be a > that reads oldest first instead.

Good catch, thanks. Fixed. Oddly enough, when I read your post just now, I still didn't notice the extra 'the' hah.

Thanks for bringing these to my attention. I fixed the berry in the dev version, I'll upload it when I fix the other issue. So whats happening here is the same issue with the shop items not displaying the price. The button actually has the right text on it, but the aria tag isn't getting updated for some reason. I will fix it asap.

EDIT: Fixed, thanks again to everyone for reporting these bugs.

Okay I'm liking the changes, but one miner problem I'm having is that I don't seem to get warnings about low energy, so keep losing gems, especially when being poisoned or cursed.

Apart from that I'm loving all the new gear though there might  a miner bug with the chaos gear:

I Also noticed this on a couple of other chaos pieces I picked up too.

Ok, fixed the chaos gear showing 0. The gear was working as intended, but the message was showing what the total chance to miss from chaos gear was. So if you looked at it before equipping it, you would see 0, because you currently are not dealing any chaos damage. I changed the message to show what each individual piece contributes to that. You can see your total by inspecting your damage trait.

I fixed that, this was another aria-label mismatch issue. Hopefully, the last one, but I'm still new to aria.

In the last update I changed the alert system to add critical alerts to a separate box with an aria-live attribute set to assertive instead of polite. I hoped that it would read over whatever else you were doing. I guess it doesn't. I'll move them back to an alert box until I figure something else out.

Fixed that, you should only get the message now when food actually spoils.

Working on the issue with the shop not going away, and the shop still existing after a prestige. These are weird bugs. Oddly enough, people using screen readers have better "visibility" (for lack of a better word) of this issue, because on my screen, it actually appears below everything and I never noticed I had to scroll down to see it. So it never came up in testing for me.

EDIT: Ok, sorta fixed the shop issue. I'm not sure why its happening, some CSS quirk maybe. I put in a javascript fail-safe so that it shouldn't happen anymore, though. I also couldn't duplicate the issue where the shop persists when you prestige in shop mode. I put in some code to dismiss the merchant right before the humble pie does its thing, so hopefully it doesn't happen for you anymore.

I think youre right, I'll double check the gem cost math. Also the next update will include an infinite achievement system that has a straight % increase to health and damage with each acheivement.