HP-washing without INT?

Hit 35 str. Dump the rest into MP. As a beginner you gain 8~10 per AP? Anyway it's definitely higher than a Warrior's. So when you reset those, you are getting an extra 4-6 mp per time.

If you do this 12 times (same #washes as your 20 beginner needs to catch up in hp) you have an extra 60 mp, for 780 potential hp gain. I'd say this is definitely better than leveling a beginner

in fact, you could level your beginner to 12 without actually losing out on anything since you need 5 points in hp recovery to make hpmax increase accessible. assuming a 35/4/4/4 build, you could dump 38 ap into mp before losing any hp. for a much higher hp gain. but itd be expensive, since you have to wash those 38 ap twice to get any benefit to hp.