Shouldering the Shut-ins (L)
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What the allowance actually buys
At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 534,960 EXP works out to 53,496 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 56 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, A Halonic Masquerade, returns 534,960 EXP for the same allowance, 900% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 53,496 EXP to 534,960 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 900%, so the wrong pick leaves 481,464 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 811,360 EXP per allowance, 52% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 473,220 EXP.
At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 284,330 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 684,949 EXP, which puts this leve 81% below its own category's average.
Titanium Vambraces of Fending ×1 is a Lv 56 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 7 intermediates, costing 36 units of raw material and 40 crystals.
Handing that in returns 14,860 EXP and 35 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Armorer, Blacksmith, Goldsmith 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 3,209,760 EXP and 7,488 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 320,976 EXP per allowance.