Still, some items are more powerful than artifacts. For example, a scroll of body switch will give you a lot of stats and make stat gain extremely fast. I won 3 games by finding a genie, wishing for a scroll of body switch, transforming in a mistress and hacking through the game. It is kinda overpowered... Maybe we should make body switching a bit worse?..
EDIT: I still lost a lot of times when I was using this strategy, but it does make the game a lot easier...