Why not just speed augment your glaive? There's a tradeoff in damage, sure, but you still get the range (and mathematically, the damage tradeoff should work out to an equivalent DPS, just without getting hit twice in a row every other turn while waiting for your glaive).

I mean, most armor in FIMA isn't all that different from cloth armor.

Nice! (And yeah, there's a crazy amount of inspiration over there, if you can adapt it to the SPD mechanics).

Nice! Inspired by Guiding Bolt and/or Faerie Fire? 🙂

I had the same thought about pre-identifying purity and remove curse. That would be especially nice in the early levels of a high challenge run.