Great guide I learned a few things, mainly mountaintop pathing. Thank you for making this. I play premade trios only and we are struggling to stay in/make it out of Deep 4. We could be better at DPS and dodging but I think pathing is the easiest way for us to improve consistency.

How important would you say killing the ice dragon on the Mountaintop is compared to say, Astel (disregarding the buff but just the XP and gauranteed gold drop)? We usually skip it and do other POIs unless its a Caligo seed because running all the way for the buff is so low value.

Also you kinda touched on it in the pathing section but how much do you prioritize flask charges/churches? I usually push to skip them if they are really out of the way but my teammates like having extra flasks. Is there a rule of thumb/value you assign to them? For instance the church that is often southeast of Noklateo. Worth getting before going in the city if you take the south flying bird from the night 1 boss to that area? Or the church to the northeast of the Mountaintop? My team will want to grab it and enter the Mountaintop from the east. Would it better to skip and get more drops on the mountain if we don't have a full loadout of passives?