Best places to farm

Experience

See also: Dungeon Experience Chart

Rank

• Dungeon/Story Battle
  • Wicked Peaks - Alluring Winds
    • 506 exp for 11 energy (46 exp/energy)

• Exploration
  • Timber Tracks - Exploration
    • 356 exp for 8 energy (44.5 exp/energy)

• Exploration
  • Mystic Woods - Exploration
    • 421 exp for 10 energy (42.1 exp/energy)

• Vortex
  • Vortex of Trials - The Brachiosaur Returns
    • 600 exp for 15 energy (40 exp/energy)

Unit

• Note: Keep in mind that unit exp is shared across all units that are brought along (excluding a friend unit if you bring one). If you want to lvl up a new unit quickly, you can power lvl the unit much faster if you limit your party to one (the one you plan to lvl up) plus your friend unit. Any K.O.'d units at the end of the mission are still awarded the full exp.
• Exploration
  • Fulan Pass/Exploration
    • 11216 unit exp for 6 energy (1869.33 per energy)
  • Wolfsfang Peak - Exploration
    • 31388 unit exp for 11 energy (2853.45 per energy)
  • Kolobos Marsh - Exploration
    • 43745 unit exp for 12 energy (3654.42 per energy)
  • Maranda Coast - Exploration
    • 60064 unit exp for 12 energy (5005.33 per energy)
  • Windy Heights West - Exploration
    • 65998 unit exp for 13 energy (5076.54 per energy)
  • Mystic Woods/Exploration
    • 65107 unit exp for 10 energy (6510.70 per energy)
  • Timber Tracks/Exploration
    • 66900 unit exp for 8 energy (8362.5 per energy)

• Vortex
  • Chamber of Experience - ADV
    • 30000-31000 unit exp for 15 energy. ~2066.67 unit exp/energy

Esper

• Phantom Forest - Exploration has the best ratio of esper experience per energy, regardless of the esper, due to sheer amount of Green Magicite and Green Megacite it drops. See this Reddit generated Spreadsheet 1 or Reddit generated Spreadsheet 2
• Chamber of Crystals gives average experience slightly below Phantom Forest, but is less of a time investment

Trust / Friendship Point / Gil

Any battle with lowest possible energy (not counting Colosseum) will do. Earth Shrine dungeons are both 1 energy, thus maximizing the gain per energy ratio.

• Allies you bring with you will give Friendship Points (FP). Friends give 10 points, meaning a Friendship Point Summon (costs 200 FP) can be obtained with 20 energy. Non-friends give half that amount, meaning 40 energy per summon
• During special events, friends give 50 points and non-friends 25 points, making the cost per summon 4 energy and 8 energy, respectively
• You can level units from FP summoning to obtain good amounts of gil by selling the unit at maximum level. Farming summons this way can be very helpful from early levels, allowing you to have large amounts of gil and diverse units for combat
• Each clear has a 10% chance to give 0.1% advancement for the Trust Master Reward. This gives a 0.01% average TMR per energy per unit, or 0.05% average TMR per energy for a full party.

Materials

For materials acquired from exploration harvest nodes, you can check the spreadsheets below (please know that these sheets are not 100% correct, as they need more runs added, so if you can send your run info to make a more precise information - The higher run number on the map means a more reliable source for that material)

For megacrysts of any color, water shrine seems to be dropping a ton of them. Water shrine and wind shrine drop megacrysts of all colors.

Reddit generated Spreadsheet 1. To help add data to this spreadsheet, check this link.
Reddit generated Spreadsheet 2. To help add data to this spreadsheet, check this link.

Demon Tail

• Dropped/stolen from Imp at Siren's Tower - Lower Floors

Dragon Scale

• Dropped/stolen from Tyrannosaur and Wyvern (boss) at Lanzelt Highlands - Exploration
• Stolen at Colosseum from Tyrannosaur (BGN B-5, BGN C-5, INT A-5), Balaur, Wyvern, and Apatosaurus (ADV D-4)

Earth's Core

• Dropped/stolen from various monsters at Golzas Canyon - Exploration
• Dropped/stolen from various monsters at Kolobos Marsh - Exploration

Elemental Tear

• Dropped/stolen from the Green Wisps in the Phantom Forest - Exploration

Esper's Tear

• Dropped from various monsters at Windy Heights West - Exploration

Farplane Soul

• Dropped/stolen from Goblin (high spawn rate) and Blue Wisp (low spawn rate) at Dalnakya Cavern - Exploration

Fire Megacryst

• Harvesting at Zadehl Westersand - Exploration gives the most fire megacryst per energy and time
• Harvesting at Dwarves' Forge - Exploration gives the most experience while giving fire megacryst

God's Reliquary

• Stolen from Tyrannosaur and Treant at Colosseum Beginner Rank C-5
• Dropped at Chamber of Awakening - ADV
• Dropped/stolen from Cactuar and Basilisk at Zadehl Westersand - Exploration

Heaven's Ash

• Dropped/stolen from Ghoul and Poison Eagle at Phantom Forest - Exploration
• Dropped/stolen from Mercury Bat at Wolfsfang Peak - Exploration
• Stolen from Tyrannosaur at Colosseum Beginner Rank C-5
• Stolen from Poison Eagle at Colosseum Beginner Rank A-1
• Dropped at Chamber of Awakening INT, ADV, and PRO

Ice Megacryst

• Harvesting at Aquatic Cove - Exploration is giving the best drop per energy (~0,11/NRG)
• Harvesting at Wolfsfang Peak - Exploration and Kolobos Marsh - Exploration give a similar drop per energy ratio (~0,09/NRG)
• Harvesting at Maranda Coast - Exploration gives the fourth best drop (~0,07/NRG)

Information are taken from this spreadsheet and may change once more information is collected

Litrock

• Dropped/stolen from Imp and Headstone at Siren's Tower - Lower Floors
• Dropped/stolen from Magitek Armor, Centipede, and Security Eye at Fulan Pass/Exploration

Mystic Ore

• Grandshelt Castle - Second Floor
  • Dropped/stolen from Floateye and Objet d'Art
  • Dropped/stolen from Roper (boss)
• Dropped from Chamber of Awakening, both INT and ADV

Raptor Feather

• Dropped/stolen from Steel Bat at Dalnakya Cavern/Exploration
• Dropped/stolen from Steel Bat at Earth Shrine/Exploration

Sacred Crystal

• Dropped at Chamber of Awakening - INT (other variants of Chamber of Awakening drop at lower drop per energy ratio)
• Occasional Trust Bonus (use units with high trust and rarity to maximize drop per energy ratio)