Look Before You Leap

One allowance here buys 593,380 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 6 Lv 58 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Sir, Dost Thou Even Heft, returns 811,360 EXP for the same allowance, 37% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 15,742 EXP to 811,360 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 5054%, so the wrong pick leaves 795,618 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 60 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 594,520 EXP per allowance, 27% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 56 rung behind tops out at 534,960 EXP.

At Lv 58 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 327,945 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 716,251 EXP, which puts this leve 81% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 1,248 gil per allowance is 1st of 6 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 1,248 gil.

Adamantite Leg Guards of Maiming ×1 is a Lv 60 Armorer recipe, 2 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 29 units of raw material and 27 crystals.

Handing that in returns 20,461 EXP and 43 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Armorer, Blacksmith, Goldsmith and Leatherworker.