Don't Scuttle with Scuta

One allowance here buys 200,450 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 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 88,620 EXP to 211,350 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 138%, so the wrong pick leaves 122,730 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 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 238,216 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 834,862 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 132,961 EXP, which puts this leve 16% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 248 gil per allowance is 3rd of 3 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.