I'm a fan of 12-3 - it gives me fairly good ampies run right its quick and I prefer advanced gardens over beginners at my stage as lv20's are not cutting it

12-3/12-5 if you want higher level manyu/better exp without including SG runs/to collect ampis while you're farming.
Run event maps if you want to get a mix of exp, gold, ampis and Life Gems/want to get the bonuses offered from the event past 4E/5S Rainlily.
2-1 if you want more numerous lower level (5-20) manyu/better exp including SG runs/can't effectively run 12-3 without needing helpers/can't afford the 80 stam SGs.

Really what you'll run depends on what you're looking for at the moment.

Since your asking for Manyu's 2-1 is best place
Since you only at stage 9, you will get alot of lvl 5 and lvl 20 Manyu's, though you get alot for the stam cost, this will cost you alot of gold in the long run to use the Manyu's.
so try to push to stage 12 if you can to farm 12-3 or 12-5, admittely most people farm this stage for the acceptable drop in Ampies and not for Manyus.

The above is really for spawning the secret garden's. Can not remember what stage the 80 stam secret start spawning, that is considered better as it's the only stage that drop LVL 100 Manyu's, but at 80 Stam each, you might find it expensive stam wise, but i guess that the trade off.

If you find it's way too hard to farm 12 then not much you can do to improve your situtation.

I just pushed to 12's once I stopped worrying about 3 starring everything (damn 10-5 is hard), so 12-3/12-5 better for manyu's stamina-wise? 80 seems like a lot, does it really pay off?

Btw is the middle chest in advanced SG basically a troll?

It's one hell of a troll. I'm convinced that last spinner isn't anywhere near 50/50!

Originally Posted by makinaz

It's one hell of a troll. I'm convinced that last spinner isn't anywhere near 50/50!

I find getting all 4 only seems to happen once every 4-5 runs so between 20-25% of the time.

Originally Posted by vem

I just pushed to 12's once I stopped worrying about 3 starring everything (damn 10-5 is hard), so 12-3/12-5 better for manyu's stamina-wise? 80 seems like a lot, does it really pay off?

Btw is the middle chest in advanced SG basically a troll?

So Map 12 is NOT better for Manyu's but it has good rate for Ampies, which you will find out soon enough are rare to come by, but to give you the answer you want it does NOT have lower chance of spawning secret garden. so you might as well run them when you can.

The 50 Stam secret garden is rubbish because it almost never spawns LVL 100 Manyu's, as opposed to the 80 Stam one which has a decent chance.
Yes the LVL 100 ampies are worth going for, especially leveling knights above LVL 55, it's just cheaper on your gold, as the cost skyrockets at higher knight level's

One last thing, I personally prefer the Manyu's days ie Wednesday and Sundays as it's more focused, and on thoes days i pass on secret gardens.