User blog comment:Linathan/Squad Spotlight: Metal Parade!/@comment-68.181.222.10-20150312123341/@comment-5660237-20150314193500

OP here.

Even right now with the level up event I've never had trouble not using all of my energy. I think the level up trick is pretty well known and even with my 90 max energy I've never thought to myself, "Oh, I wish I could each run a minute faster." With 90 energy I can get 11 runs in (4 immediately, wait 25 min for 5th, level up and repeat, use waiting trick for 11th run) with a good amount of time to spare. So long as you're not gemming for max efficiency or somehow have enough max energy to do parades for a full hour straight. And if you have that much base energy then you're probably familiar enough with the game to already know how to take advantage of hit counts/DEF ignore and such.

Not saying that the article isn't useful, though. I suppose it helps if you're in a hurry and need to crank out runs quickly.