Fifty Shields of Blades (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 3,053,960 EXP works out to 305,396 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 6 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, 82% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 40,608 EXP to 555,260 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1267%, so the wrong pick leaves 514,652 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 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 251,119 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 576,023 EXP, which puts this leve 22% above its own category's average.

Mythrite Bladed Lantern Shield ×3 is a Lv 53 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 144 units of raw material and 129 crystals over 3 crafts.

Handing that in returns 21,208 EXP and 28 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer and Blacksmith.