Yep LIVAN is much easier because of all the new worlds and opportunities to find items. So you beat Izzy too? I'm curious to hear how that went I've never met him before
Belt of levitation. I'm sure it's possible from wells or magical mushrooms as well, but not very easy to control. Beat the sumo or wish for one from a genie.
Ah yeah, INT is useful for teleporting too as Al mentions. When you have telecontrol, the higher your INT, the farther away you can teleport under control (if you try to teleport outside of that range, you will instead appear in a random square).
And yeah... I don't find WIS useful either except for boosting INT
The only grotesquely high attributes are his arm and leg strength, which is because his arms and legs are changed into a different material. There is nothing wrong with that. And as you will see, the higher your stats, the more powerful your enemies become, so it's not like the game becomes easy. In fact it gets harder as you go along, no matter how powerful you get.
About the wands, they have a random initial number of charges, but every time you recharge them, they get the same amount.
I think you were asking if encountering your ghosts is intentional, yes it is a feature of the game. That's why you have a folder called "Bones", that's where all your ghost levels are saved.
I don't mind all the newbie questions, the forum was getting boring and he may not want to read the Wiki because of the spoilers.