Pan That Laid the Golden Egg

One allowance here buys 243,650 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 52 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Let Faith Light the Way, returns 555,260 EXP for the same allowance, 128% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 243,650 EXP to 555,260 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 128%, so the wrong pick leaves 311,610 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 473,220 EXP per allowance, 15% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 211,350 EXP.

At Lv 52 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 337,743 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 868,208 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 177,755 EXP, which puts this leve 28% below its own category's average.

Frypan Caliente ×1 is a Lv 52 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 29 units of raw material and 24 crystals.

Handing that in returns 8,402 EXP and 9 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Carpenter.

The record carries a repeats value of 2. This site reads that as 2 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 730,950 EXP and 810 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 730,950 EXP per allowance.