Okay, so I'm level 67 (recently leveled) with 248 stamina, 3 evolved 5*s, 7 evolved 4*s and 4 evolved 3*s. I know lots of people reccommend 2-1 and 12-3 for farming manyus, but I've hit a point where 2-1 doesn't give enough coin and 12-3 doesn't really ever spawns SG (much less give ampies). When I do finally get the 80 stamina SG I pretty much say bye-bye to most of my stamina points and after one more SG I'm unable to play for most of the day due to me not being a paying player yet.

How exactly do you guys manage to time and balance out stamina use to farming manyus?

Also, these are my current squads:

I'm basically in your shoes.. Although personally, I always go for 12-3 since it gives so much experience as well. Every other day or so I level up and enjoy all the refills.

I'm still confused on what the difference between 12-3 and 12-5 is. Why so people prefer one over the other?

Originally Posted by moarsi

I'm still confused on what the difference between 12-3 and 12-5 is. Why so people prefer one over the other?

I've tried to do 12-5 and at the moment my characters struggle to clear it. By the time I finish it I've lost most of my characters and the least 2 - 3 entire squads.

Oh so if you can finish 12-5 then that is the better choice? Well that's good to know, I was doing both of them intermittently.

Well to be short your gonna get way less manyus out of farming 12-5 over 1-3(or 2-1 w/e) but you'll be getting a lot more seeds, coins (maybe? not sure), and better bosses. I farm 12-5 most the time if I don't have anyone I need to evolve/lvl up very quickly. Also its much faster to blow through all my stamina if I don't want to play a lot. The big thing is 12-5 will result in you being much more coin efficient in leveling your girls since the gold manyu's give so much more xp.

@Myrdin yeah the game is really designed to be easy going, so being super active is not going to get you better girls than others.

Originally Posted by MiqDoloran

@Myrdin yeah the game is really designed to be easy going, so being super active is not going to get you better girls than others.

There are only a few things that you have to do on a schedule (and you don't even really HAVE to do them, it just makes you efficient).

1. Try to use up as many of your gatherings as you can. Most people sleep for more than 6 hours at a time, so there's going to be a little bit of lost opportunity here, but that's OK unless you're obsessed. For the rest of the time, it's a crap shoot based on your non-FKG obligations such as work or school, but if playing PPS taught me anything, it's the importance of setting timers.
2. Stop going on gatherings by 6 hours prior to the daily reset (or whatever combination you want so long as when the reset happens you have full gathering points) so that you can get started on completing your daily missions right after reset.
3. Likewise, start tapering off your stamina use prior to the reset. You'll want full or nearly full stamina at reset to get a good portion of your daily missions done without resorting to running the lower maps, or worse, forgoing any secret gardens you may spawn. Of course you could just wait and complete them throughout the day, but I don't like leaving them undone for so long.

Speaking of stamina (and more to the original point of this thread), there comes a point where the stamina afforded by your level (I think for me it was in the early 70s) allows you to get enough maps done to feel like you're doing enough in FKG. Part of it is certainly what Myrdin said. The rest is just that if you average completing a level per day and get full stamina refills, the slow recharge rate doesn't seem quite so bad.

I've found other efficiencies. My favorite is not just blowing through a level up when you get close, but choosing what map to run based on the correct balance between stamina used and XP gained. Ideally, you want to burn through your last stamina points with a huge overage of XP gained. I try to run 12-5 at exactly 40 stamina left and less than 10 XP before leveling. Whatever I do right before that is basically free chests so it doesn't matter if it's 1-3 or 2-5 or a daily map as long as I save that run of 12-5 to push my XP over the top.