The unlocking of weapons is still a crap shoot to me. I've looked on the Dead Cells wiki and reddit pages, and they all point to "___ weapon can be found ___", but I never find it. THEN I realized that if you're not unlocking things (cause I had been avoiding unlocking boots and shields), new weapon plans won't pop up. As soon as I started unlocking stuff, I'd get new plans all the time.

Anyway, I'm learning how to better pair weapons together. That will really help you in the later cell biomes. Now when I have a weapon that let's say causes bleeding, I try to pair the rest of my weapons to effect bleeding. I had a great run last week that was caused bleeding AND poison, and then had subsequent weapons that benefitted from both. HUGE difference. But of course I died on a curse run..ha ha.