Originally Posted by ZeroZet

One thing worth to remember then: hunting tier-3 Secret Gardens cost you more stamina as you are running normal maps for a chance to spawn a SG, while dailies are guaranteed 80 stam a pop. Still, 11-/12- maps have good returns themselves, so it balances out, more or less.

but the manyu quality from the 80 sta SG is still better, and you're guaranteed 3 big chests unlike the 80 sta daily which guarantees only 2, which might not even be both big. so all-in-all I'd say running 12-3 still best (12-5 > 12-3 but much harder, or so I heard)