Beacon as a mage armor ability is also super useful (used it on my pacifist ascent). You can upgrade it to be placed a good distance from you. You will need a ring of energy and/or scrolls of mystical energy to keep your armor energy topped up. And also a ton of teleportation scrolls, stones of blink, and healing.
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I have 18/634 (about 2.9% win rate), mainly because when I beat the game one way, i want to make it harder. So a lot of the deaths are from me trying to win 7 challenges after ascending with 6 challenges three times. I think the average would not really be telling anything because of the difference in playstyles.
As I was saying, the part with the HP obscured is a me problem - with shattered glass at the top of my screen. My point was that it would be nice to add the black rectangle on top, when the fullscreen is turned off.
It's similar on my phone (Motorola moto g42) in the way that fullscreen off affects only the bottom part of the display. No issues with cutouts though. (only that I have shattered the most upper part of my display, and I am unable to decipher my HP with the current fullscreen on or off. But that's on me I guess 😆)
You can manipulate which inventory expansion appears in the shop. The game picks the one that will free up the most space in your inventory, so just drop some stuff at boss level depth so the type of items you have most of are the targeted.
Normal weapon damage doesn't increase with surprise attacks. It's this way only with dirk and assassin blade. But yes, lunging through doors is still useful.
I don't see that written in the ability description 
Lunge always hits, so there is no need to add a surprise attack
Okay, I will use direct messages with possible future bug reports. I just saw others doing it this way as well, didn't know what was better.
Just speculating, but maybe a gnoll shaman dropped it when you killed him without noticing ("you hear something die in a distance" in chat).
My best six challenges run got me 978,025 points, then two got me 945,250. Still trying for the million, it feels so close...