My best advice for someone starting out and wanting to grind Vita would be: 1.

If you have cash, buy deluxe boosters so you can transform Sita, or just use Cinia as your character card. 2. Get 2 Shrinks and 3 Meadow Leisures immediately. 3. Get 2 Unionize and 2 Empowering Chant after that. 4. Use your spells to clear the first 15-20ish floors of Crux Camp while you als o grind easier dungeons to completion. You only need to do Crux until you have 1 14 Holy Beast Tears. 5. Since you've been crafting only spells, you should have plenty of Cat Dolls. By the time you get the tears, you should be able to craft Library Ace. Do it. S he should be the first rare follower you craft, you can beat any NPC in the game with turn 1 Ace+Empowering Chant. 6. Now that you can grind anything, you can start upgrading your followers. Get Layna, Library Vernika, Student Council Casey, and anything you want with 2+Def. 7. Get 3 Uniform Tweaks and add them to your deck (instead of Shrink/Unionize). 8. Shuffle aggressively on turn 1 every time so that you get 2 high def follower s + Tweak, or just Ace+Chant, or Layna+Over the Wall, or some random good setup like that. 9. You are now a PVE god.