Hi, I'm new to the community, please forgive me if I'm posting something in the wrong place.
I had a question about the non-glitched run, and the routing of the TAS done by inzult and RisingTempest. In the early game it's amazingly efficient with experience, so much so that a good amount of experience seems to be just thrown away near the end. It looks to me that by spending a little bit of extra time collecting experience in palace 5, it would be possible to get to magic level 7, which in turn would allow you to skip the entire trip to new kasuto to get the final magic jar.
Probably I'm missing something, obviously other people have spent much more time thinking about this than I have. But let me explain what I have in mind, so somebody can tell me where I'm wrong? This has been bugging me for a while now.
So let's say in palace 5 you spend some extra time getting to the magic 6 level up at 2200, ideally just as you beat the boss. In the current TAS the exp total is at 1600, so this would require 650 extra experience points in the palace. I'm not sure how much time that'd take but it seems like it couldn't be more than 15 seconds, if you kill a few extra fire wizards or something. Then, the palace gem would bring you all the way up to attack level 6, at 3000. After that, you just skip the final magic jar, play through palace 6 as quickly as possible, and then the gem there would bring you up to magic level 7. That way you can cast thunder with only 7 magic jars.
So the routing is almost exactly the same, just some extra time in p5 getting 650 more experience, and skipping the magic jar. If this works it seems like it must save time. I suspect there's something wrong, like maybe somewhere in p6 or p7 you don't have enough fairy casts, since magic level 7 only makes thunder cheaper, but not fairy. I watched through the video a few times and didn't see anywhere obvious where the last jar is necessary, but it moves so fast I probably missed something important.