torinchibi wrote:
Problem with 0 gap is that you level too fast to get enough sp. You will probably get about the same sp with 0 and 3 gap but just because you lvl slower, you will gain more sp per level with 3 gap. It really doesn't matter if your gap is 0 or 9, as long as you have mobs that are higher level to kill, you are fine, since with 0 gap you will be killing mobs 5 levels above you easily, and with 9 gap you will be killing lower level mobs with the same number of atks.
You level slower from a larger gap because more normal exp is taken away for more SP exp. Its not that a 3 gap just makes you take longer to level. Higher level monsters might give more SP exp but they also give an equally boosted normal exp which is why grinding on higher level monsters for a whole level will not result in more SP than the same gap grinded on lower level monsters.
Anyway. A 0 gap doubled is close to a 3 gap exactly. That is only when you are grinding on gold time though which, is what happened to my Wizard, makes taking a 0 gap really not worth it because you won't be able to grind off of gold time. If you pick a moderate gap in between the 2 gaps, such as a 1 or 2 gap, you should be fine. But, if you only just squeeze away lvls with less than a 500+ SP remainder at 5X, then when you get to a level where you level multiple skills at once or get many new skills at once you will be stuck without enough SP for that level.