Everything you know about EXP leveling is wrong. (Table Included)

This is especially relevant for this week's EXP boost events!

The common knowledge seems to be that you should power-level on 10-5, since 10-5 to 10-8 all have the same level opponents and the absence of turrets makes 10-5 the fastest way to gain EXP.

Unfortunately, based upon the most recent .csv files provided by u/mr_munkki, this doesn't seem to be the case. In fact, the EXP does increase, except oddly in a few cases where two stages in a row will have the same EXP.

Additionally, I wanted to see whether it is better to use a Level 60 plow character at a high level or 3 sub-Level 60's to maximize the net EXP. You can see in the below table that it is actually better to run 3 sub-60's at 10-3 than 1 level 60 and 2 sub-60's at 10-8. If you insist on 10-5, it's actually better to run 3 sub-60's on 9-8.

I hope this proves to be helpful. Here is the table I am referencing.

This does not account for mob EXP, which is a separate field and hard to calculate on a stage by stage basis