In case anyone is interested, Default gods: MA (Left Middle), TT (Right), PM (Bottom Center).
Seriously, the Battlemage Ring is perhaps the most critical prep today. I couldn't even kill an L2 at the start without first buying a Whurgurbl.
And I definitely wasted lots of blackspace today, picking on unsuitable foes only to give up on them later when I realized I was not able to kill them - I didn't have any damage glyphs at the start (pretty much only picked up and started to use Burndayraz when fighting Gobb) and relied mainly on the Whurgurbl and Bearmace from the sub. That's how I got top damage currently, lol.
Fast forward to level 7, I weytwhuted Gobb to Frank, and after hitting him, just realized damage was peanuts. In the end, just had to make the decision to take Flames and burn both bosses and all enemies to death. Took PM's Alchemist Pact to make sure all the potions do some good at least - perhaps that's the reason I even managed to get top XP for the moment (and no, I didn't even used Imawal today except as a source of mana).