Shielded by Bureaucracy (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 334,080 EXP works out to 33,408 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th 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, 533% 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 81% below its own category's average.

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 11,931 EXP and 31 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Leatherworker.

The record carries a repeats value of 5. This site reads that as 5 further turn-ins on the same leve — an assumption, because the source data defines no meaning for the field — which would put the ceiling at 2,004,480 EXP and 5,148 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 200,448 EXP per allowance.