All right, I am a little bit lazy, and I have not tried to calculate the average per energy point experience win for mission types (if anybody with the time and energy actually knows some good solid data, I'd be happy to know).
I would like to know what you people think about how to pick missions for the fastest leveling.
In my experience, skill missions seem most efficient, given that you are guaranteed to succeed if you keep a spare set of items (I have four complete sets, one for each stat) that assures a 100% success rate on skill missions. As far as I can tell, hard fighting missions are all about luck, and I have had some nasty experiences doing hard fighting missions.
Yes, sorry for being lazy and not taking the time to make a deep statistical analysis. What I am asking for is more of a general gut feeling than a profound analysis.
My general view is to aim for the highest per energy experience reward, though obviously if there is a mission with a party ticket reward that one is the one to take, experience reward be damned. However, as far as I can see, hard skill missions seem to almost always be the most rewarding missions, as long as you have the gear to be sure that you succeed. Obviously sometimes a time mission has a very big reward as well. I am afraid of fighting missions because of the unpredictability and the meager earnings for a failed mission.
So what do you hardcore BBE enthusiasts say? Am I wasting my time constantly changing outfits to auto-succeed skill missions? How do you play the game to best use your energy?