Talk:Tier Magic/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180514152411

How is the correspondence to DnD magic levels? It looks to me like Tier corresponds roughly to level, with cantrips being tier 0 and tier 10 containing some spells from level 9.

In that case, level progression seems to be something like equivalent of 2-3 D&D levels to 7 Yggdrasil levels, though some uncertainty exists as to whether elements like gaining spell tiers only on related caster levels like in D&D are reflected in Yggdrasil, which instead seems to allow stacking most caster levels or maybe all levels to establish tier reached. So a single-classed caster can learn level 9 spells by 17th level in D&D while tier 9 requires 57 Yggdrasil levels, but the Yggdrasil levels can (indeed must) be multiclassed and don't seem to need to all be caster levels (though that isn't perfectly clear).

In other words, maybe a level 70 caster in Yggdrasil is supposed to be the equivalent of about level 20 D&D single-class caster, but with more options for epic progression to an equivalent of level 28 at level 100. There is also the matter of HP, the second tier healing spell in Yggdrasil potions Ainz gives out recovers 50 HP, while the equivalent potion from D&D should heal an average of 10 HP (+/- 8, unless specially crafted to heal up to +8 more HP). Which suggests that Yggdrasil HP has about a 1-5 ratio to D&D HP.

On the other hand, Ainz is monstrously strong, on the level of a heroic warrior of a third of his level, despite being basically a pure caster, whereas in D&D a pure caster would not have such advantages. This could be from his advanced undead racial levels (like his immunities to low tier spells and low-level physical attack), but Narberal is also unusually physically strong despite having only one racial level with the rest being arcane caster levels. This suggests that maybe a multi-class model would be a better comparison, with 7 Yggdrasil levels being equivalent to 3 D&D levels, where caster oriented levels would be like 2 caster levels to each 1 warrior level while warrior levels would be the opposite mix (or maybe more like paladin/ranger levels).