It's been a long time since I tried an Eluku game.
Suddenly, I can see why there's so much chatter about cheat engine in this thread. This game is borderline impossible to get started in at this point.
It's actually funny almost, seeing how easy it was back when the guide was made, but at this point the only way I see me getting past the "Boogey Orc" without the glitchy little goblin things screwing me over is if I grind enough to be one shotting them. I was doing less damage than the video at level five at level 7 or so. I take it the game was deliberately made harder, at some point? Wouldn't be half as frustrating if the respawning items would do so without having to close and reopen the game every time.
EDIT - Didn't get through till a good way through level 10, but I did get through at last. Still took a bit of mercy from the randomly spawning little goblin things, even then.
... And then I found out you actually had to spend resources to level up. Doh. Oh well, couple of games of pachinko later, this is a lot more like it.