Don't Scuttle with Scuta

One allowance here buys 200,450 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 6 Lv 50 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Hauberk and No Play, returns 211,350 EXP for the same allowance, 5% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 33,408 EXP to 211,350 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 533%, so the wrong pick leaves 177,942 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 52 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 555,260 EXP per allowance, 163% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 45 rung behind tops out at 152,230 EXP.

At Lv 50 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 176,840 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 553,899 EXP, which puts this leve 13% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 248 gil per allowance is 5th of 6 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 686 gil.

Mythrite Scutum ×1 is a Lv 51 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 28 units of raw material and 23 crystals.

Handing that in returns 7,159 EXP and 9 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Leatherworker.