Deal with It (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 473,220 EXP works out to 47,322 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 54 Goldsmith Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, Life Ends at Retirement (L), returns 355,883 EXP for the same allowance, 652% more.

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 77% below its own category's average.

Hardsilver Magnifiers of Casting ×1 is a Lv 54 Goldsmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 30 units of raw material and 39 crystals.

Handing that in returns 15,774 EXP and 36 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist and Goldsmith.

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 2,839,320 EXP and 6,552 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 283,932 EXP per allowance.