before OPENING THE MENU, not before teleporting. also the first frame after the text box disappears is a lag frame so you can't open the menu then. leave one non-lag frame after opening the chest before opening the menu
The Mota-Ring you win from De-Vars will give Rika half damage from Sa-Lews' Flaeli, which might save a couple of heals. Plus it's a minor stat boost.
At the start of the soldier temple island cave, it seems you step off the optimal path by one tile. Is there a reason for that
(a) actually equip the rings or (b) walk down the first stairs from the top floor of the two towers.
Then again, I'm not sure how well the team will do against Megid. I thought you would have Rune go two-shield much earlier. But I imagine you either have a plan or you'll be able to manipulate things effectively.
in case you wonder : with a silver shield and the guard robe, raja can survive. this way, he resurects rune, and in the following turn, everyone has revived. PD 3 casts megid only once; the rest of the time, he can simple attack wren
There are also two little single-tile changes from the optimal path on the first floor of the solider temple island
I noticed today that when you're getting Kyra from the carnivorous plants you drive the ice digger directly into the forest. This causes two lines of dialog where Chaz says "we can't get through". If you get out of the ice digger the space before and walk into the trees you can skip this. I'm pretty sure it's faster to walk those two spaces and skip the two lines of dialog, but it's got to be less than a second.
