Newgame+ or Mapworks

[Floth]

Which one is better for gear and leveling

[steffire3]

Originally posted by Floth:

Which one is better for gear and leveling

Leveling (Experience) is at max when defeating enemies at the Player Level hence NG+ is beneficial to keep the campaign Acts viable for leveling otherwise Mapworks can also help with that.
Phase Beast maps are actually the best especially ones that have blue chests or champs.
NG+ controls what level items will appear by scaling the dungeon levels.
Mapworks is also affected by NG+.
Once any ideal Skull items have been farmed at lower NG+ then it's best to move up to isolate the highest level drops and then Boris Enchant them for maximum Stats.