Life Ends at Retirement (L)
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What the allowance actually buys
At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 3,558,830 EXP works out to 355,883 EXP per allowance, the best of the 3 Lv 54 Goldsmith Grand Company leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 164,661 EXP, 54% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 47,322 EXP to 355,883 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 652%, so the wrong pick leaves 308,561 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Goldsmith Grand Company leve returns 180,139 EXP per allowance, 49% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 346,420 EXP.
At Lv 54 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 205,186 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 938,680 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 400,590 EXP, which puts this leve 73% above its own category's average.
Hardsilver Bangle of Fending ×3 is a Lv 55 Goldsmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 105 units of raw material and 168 crystals over 3 crafts.
Handing that in returns 33,894 EXP and 45 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist and Goldsmith.