yeah your positioning, which in item world can really speed you along when you are in the beginning of an item... instead of taking the time to kill stuff you just zoom along and it can really speed things up.
Oh, that's what I've been doing in the item world if I couldn't reach the gate in time. :lol Trying to avoid damage even though the common items are level 2+ right now. Went back into Mao's sword I leveled to 10 and got destroyed by level 9 enemies as a level 13 Mao. Should probably level my defense items up...
Been trying to get the innocents to spawn but can't seem to figure out how to spawn them consistently.