Thank you! I've been playing this game for the past month since I watched that same video. I've played about 60h now. Yesterday I got an arcane blade to unlock a prodigy for the first time since I started playing (yeah it took me 50h to get to lvl 25 for the first time) and died immediately after on some quest to save a woman from a cult.

So earlier today I decided to go through the forums, saw your post and went "Huh, maybe I should give bulwark a try again since it's so beginner friendly and I'm yet to beat the master"

Loaded up the game, game glitched tf out and I died at lvl 5, started again and went all the way to 30 in about 5h.

Haven't died yet so I'll keep playing this char and see how far I can take it.

So again, Thanks for the wonderful guide! It's been pretty helpful!

Edit a week later: Have been busy with uni lately, but I indeed have taken the char all the way to lvl 50 and beat the game for the first time on roguelike normal (died once at the final fight but I had one extra life from that vial) so again, big thanks!