1. How valuable is Magic Level compared to weapon skills?
Weapon skills remain your primary driver for raw damage, leech efficiency, and clear speed. However, Magic Level is your main lever for sustain scaling. While weapon skills dictate how fast you kill, your ML dictates how safely and aggressively you can pull, which indirectly impacts your hunting speed.
2. At Level 600, does ML make a noticeable difference in raw XP?
Direct XP Impact: None. Knight offensive spells scale off weapon skill and character level, not ML.
Indirect XP Impact: Yes. At level 600, going from 11 ML to 12 or 13 ML noticeably boosts your healing spells like exura med ico. Better self-healing means:
Using fewer Supreme Health Potions (saving capacity and gold).
Sustained Offense: Instead of having to drop your damage output by swapping to utamo tempo to survive heavy pressure, you can stay in utito tempo all the way.
Over-pulling or hunting higher-risk, higher-density spawns that yield significantly higher raw XP/h.
Usually used when hunting for exp or/and in team.
3. Tropical Marinated Tiger vs. Tropical Fried Terrorbird?
Veggie Casserole: Always your primary choice for raw damage and leech.
Tropical Marinated Tiger: Best daily option. It is accessible via the Hireling, costs far less, and provides a continuous boost to your active healing.
Tropical Fried Terrorbird: Hot Cuisine event dish (+5 ML). Extremely expensive depending on the server. Reserve this strictly for high-end team hunt pushes or dangerous solo spawn unlocks never for routine Gold farming.
4. 11 ML vs. 12/13 ML Breakdown
For an EK, +1 or +2 ML is a considerable percentage gain at ML 11. Because EK healing formulas give high weight to ML multipliers, a +1 ML jump feels much more impactful on your exura med ico output than 30+ character levels would. You will definitely feel the difference in sustain.
My advice: buy an NPC ML food and test the difference in healing. If you are not convinced, then don't use it.
