I'm in the same boat I gotta level the following at this point also.

5 ★ Toad Lily 54-70
5 ★ Orchid Wydler 60-70
5 ★ Voilet 24-70
5 ★ Gerbera 50-70
5 ★ Star Lily 64-70
5 ★ Cymbidium 26-70
5 ★ Chocolate Cosmos 57-70
5 ★ Lechenaultia 54-70
5 ★ Peach 53-70
5 ★ Strawberry Candle Evolve then 1-70
5 ★ Geranium 1-70
5 ★ Camellia 22-60 then 1-70
5 ★ Cyrtanthus 18-60 Evolve then 1-70
5 ★ Bipinna Cosmos 44-60 Evolve then 1-70
5 ★ Convallaria 22-60 Evolve then 1-70
5 ★ Leucocoryne 1-60 Evolve then 1-70

6 ★ Anemone 1-70
6 ★ Sakura 47-60 Evolve then 1-70
6 ★ Fritillaria 20-60 Evolve then 1-70

Its about 50x more depressing after writing it out on how many hundreds and hundreds of manny's i still need at this point.
At least it will be a head start once it expands out to 8 groups.

Don't know why it took me so long how to maximize the farming potential of ?-8. I guess my mind was elsewhere.

For those interested in farming it for gold (and Secret Gardens) like I am, you can VERY RELIABLY obtain 24k by using one squad of a speed of around 700 plus (preferably squad #1), four squads of 400 minus and place them from top to bottom at (1-1-0-3).

Even if the speedy squad takes the long way around, they should finish up the map before the others can unlock the path to the goal, letting them run circles on the South side once the map's finished.

Ok, I'm done. Time to be dead on the forums again until the next event.

Was kind of worried about not getting 24 medals for this one. Lost count of how many times ?-7 took me to finally get it. Yeah, ?-8's gold is great.

Are most people buying the rainbow skillbloom with their farmed life crystals? I'd buy it but I still don't have any 6*s and am wondering if it might be better to get something else (like 2 gold skillblooms) instead.

Havn't touched my crystals yet. In the future is there any stuff that will be added in the crystal shop? If not, then i'll prolly just buy the rainbow skillbloom.

When this event started i had about 420 crystals. Now got only 38 but bought rainbow and both gold skillblooms . Im passing on every bonus secret garden just to save another 80 stam for 6 or more crystals :S . To be honest i'm bit tired with this event - want to farm manyus again...but untill the end of event i feel it would be waste not to go for crystals.

Future events will also have life crystals...

Originally Posted by Corintis

Don't know why it took me so long how to maximize the farming potential of ?-8. I guess my mind was elsewhere.

For those interested in farming it for gold (and Secret Gardens) like I am, you can VERY RELIABLY obtain 24k by using one squad of a speed of around 700 plus (preferably squad #1), four squads of 400 minus and place them from top to bottom at (1-1-0-3).

Even if the speedy squad takes the long way around, they should finish up the map before the others can unlock the path to the goal, letting them run circles on the South side once the map's finished.

Ok, I'm done. Time to be dead on the forums again until the next event.

Great advice here. I've been getting tons of gold/life crystals/secret gardens with this method.