General Notes -spam item boosts/exp boosts/mickey until you have all the item-based trophies (use 100 items, get 10,000 item drops, 2,000 XP in one play, mickey for an hour) -keep guests on for 100 friend orbs as well as rhythm point bonuses -use Classic Team exclusively until you've hit LV99 with them, then make sure to use each team at least once -when you play Crossing to Neverland on Proud make sure you hit the 19-hit enemy -make sure you get the glide for 1 min trophy during some song, can be whatever, a long song on beginner is easiest

Step 1: World Tour -complete World Tour and play all songs -you do not need to get every star, but you do need 280 stars to unlock the three secrets -playing a song twice is acceptable if you need to, but NEVER play the same song on the same difficulty twice -it might be worth it to play a mix of difficulties to make it more likely you won't get duplicates during the COM battle section -you should get 22,500 rhythm points during this (max song unlock), especially if you're getting lots of FCs

Step 2: Synthesis -create all the synthable songs and any materials you need to make them -if you haven't got 100 synths/max moogle level yet, craft item boosts/exp boosts/mickeys. you can save this until later when you have more materials but make sure you've unlocked every song before proceeding

Step 3: COM Battles -if possible, play songs/difficulties you didn't play during World Tour -if you win every match you'll need to play two more matches after reaching plat 1

Step 4: all songs, all difficulties -make sure you're getting 50 FCs in each difficulty -you should reach 50,000 rhythm points here -you should also get LV99 Classic here if you haven't already -you get ONE chance to FC each Today's Tune, play them on beginner first and if you miss restart the song

Step 5: final grind(s) -the magic song for enemy grinding is What Lies Beneath (Proud), it provides 349 enemies in 142 seconds (including loading/results time), which is superior to both Wave of Darkness and Dark Domination while simultaneously being easier to FC than either -if somehow you reach 100,000 enemies and are missing 100 treasure chests, switch to Don't Think Twice field version (shortest song in the game)