Crisscrossing
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Required Items
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 705,130 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 62 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 376,880 EXP, 47% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 226,120 EXP to 705,130 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 212%, so the wrong pick leaves 479,010 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 64 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 489,060 EXP per allowance, 31% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 60 rung behind tops out at 703,720 EXP.
At Lv 62 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 417,590 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,118,055 EXP, which puts this leve 69% above its own category's average.
High Steel Kris ×1 is a Lv 63 Blacksmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 6 intermediates, costing 43 units of raw material and 35 crystals.
Handing that in returns 16,398 EXP and 64 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Blacksmith, Carpenter and Goldsmith.