The Thriller of Autumn (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 560,140 EXP works out to 56,014 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 54 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Someone Put Dung in My Helmet, returns 473,220 EXP for the same allowance, 745% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 56,014 EXP to 473,220 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 745%, so the wrong pick leaves 417,206 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 534,960 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 555,260 EXP.

At Lv 54 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 296,533 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 622,778 EXP, which puts this leve 81% below its own category's average.

Titanium Mail of Fending ×1 is a Lv 55 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 6 intermediates, costing 34 units of raw material and 33 crystals.

Handing that in returns 16,475 EXP and 34 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith, Goldsmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.

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 3,360,840 EXP and 7,020 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 336,084 EXP per allowance.