When is the optimal time to leave for the island?

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Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

The only things that are too hard in Darion at first are: Staff of Destruction, Enemen, and the Knight's Tent guards.

EDIT: oh and Magic Range too.

I agree on all of those so far - I have not defeated/completed any of them. I have not done the ghost castle either - when I saw the stacks inside I promptly ran away. Enemen... I am not sure what that is.

The only one of those where I made some progress was the Staff of Destruction quest, but I was taking such heavy losses after each fight that I decided to shelve it until later, but not before trying to go to the second level. There, I fought an epic battle with terrible casualties on both sides until I only had one stack of Griffins left and the enemy had two stacks of guardsmen. I would have won thanks to magic and the cheasy tactic of leading the guardsmen around so that they cannot reach my Griffins, but around round 25 of the fight, my skill that returns my mana back at a rate of 2 per round malfunctioned. Even before that it started returning only 1 mana per round, but around that time it stopped giving me mana entirely. At that point the fight would just be infinite, so I reloaded...