High Steal
Location
Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 110,360 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 60 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Have Blade, Will Travel, returns 703,720 EXP for the same allowance, 538% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 110,360 EXP to 703,720 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 538%, so the wrong pick leaves 593,360 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 62 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 705,130 EXP per allowance, 0% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 58 rung behind tops out at 811,360 EXP.
At Lv 60 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 415,953 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,098,783 EXP, which puts this leve 73% below its own category's average.
High Steel Nugget ×1 is a Lv 61 Blacksmith recipe, a single step, costing 5 units of raw material and 3 crystals.
Handing that in returns 22,072 EXP and 90 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.
The record carries a repeats value of 2. This site reads that as 2 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 331,080 EXP and 1,353 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 331,080 EXP per allowance.