I'll Show You My Battle Shards

One allowance here buys 1,062 gil, the best of the 6 Lv 52 Miner fieldcraft leves that record gil: the runner-up manages 997 gil, 6% less.

Across that rung the return runs from 412 gil to 1,062 gil per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 158%, so the wrong pick leaves 650 gil of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Miner fieldcraft leve returns 902 gil per allowance, 15% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 834 gil.

At Lv 52 this data holds 72 leves paying gil across 3 categories: the 18 Fieldcraft ones average 694 gil per allowance, the 6 Battlecraft ones 895 gil and the 48 Tradecraft ones 459 gil, which puts this leve 53% above its own category's average.

Foundation issues 360 leves in this dataset, Lv 50 through Lv 58, across 12 disciplines.