Hey, even with infinite ProN, you sometimes get terrible results because you forgot to talk to a NPC, that the secret stat point they gave was needed to pass a check that in turn granted more points... And snowball until a war that started great turns into a disaster.
Several attempts have been made in the past at establishing an optimized route that was good enough for everybody... And mostly proved that everyone had their own opinion on what results one should strike for and which ones can be disregarded.
Still, maybe we could still improve the general walkthrough to be more opinionated about the places were some choices are just traps that should be avoided (like at the start of Chapter 2 were there is really no point but shooting oneself in the foot to skipping Altina or Stark or entering the slime infested merchant camp).
[yeah I know, I'm ranting about this section, but it deserves it]
Iijil
Why do you pick up Succubus Immigration instead of Fancy Walk? The latter is cheaper and gives more acceptance. None of the other benefits of Succubus Immigration seem to matter.
Unless that page is wrong, the succubus guild fees are mandatory to unlock the national succubus trade. And the both of them together are a 70% +3 Acceptance +6 Economy +2 Yhilin +5 Army Size, which is not bad at all.
I've noticed a potential way to save some ProN before the 3rd Arclent War: If we take Jhennos support in Religion and want to pick up the Givini Tunnels for ProN returns anyway, then we can ace the Council of Gawnfall by investing 50k in the Order if Silence instead of investing in the Sanitation Mages. The Order frees up Jhenno to bicker with Hester and the Influence can be used to go all in for the Tak'Kan vote. That vote can then be won by appealing to Kerannii. We can get Annah to 7 during the Fucklord vote.
Being able to skip the Sanitation Guild without bad consequences actually open an interesting alternative strategy:
- Invest 100,000 in the Order of Silence instead of 10,000.
- Actually be 10,000 richer in the short term, and 5,000 richer at the end of the war, so Chapter 3 remains unchanged.
- Before the council, instead of buying the Mage Guild, buy most of the small but useful things you're still missing (like the Givini Smith and the Theltiar Rentals in my route).
- Apply the strategy you just detailed to still ace the council
- Do as much good in the war in spite of New Givini Score being less than 50 and having no mage guild thanks to the Order of Silence being awesome
- Actually have enough money to buy the smith during the war
- Finally buy the guild by the end of the chapter
- Profit?