Shouldering the Shut-ins (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 534,960 EXP works out to 53,496 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 56 Armorer Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, Why I Wear a Mask (L), returns 294,229 EXP for the same allowance, 450% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 53,496 EXP to 294,229 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 450%, so the wrong pick leaves 240,733 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Armorer Grand Company leve returns 446,249 EXP per allowance, 52% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 260,272 EXP.

At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 195,640 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,032,386 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 390,755 EXP, which puts this leve 73% 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.