Level Bonuses Based on Equipment

Before that happens I probably need to familiarize myself with asm. What's the best guide or tutorial for my needs?

I gave you some links on this post. The tutorials on the document page are good and I especially refer to the web page made by TheGun aka assassin, it's well written and pretty much complete. However it's more a companion guide when coding and a reference document rather than a tutorial.

I've learned by looking at documented code, understanding it and trying simple hacks, it has grow up starting from this.