Hammer Time
Location
Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 376,880 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 62 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Crisscrossing, returns 705,130 EXP for the same allowance, 87% more.
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 10% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 2,746 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 2,746 gil.
High Steel Sledgehammer ×1 is a Lv 62 Blacksmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 22 units of raw material and 21 crystals.
Handing that in returns 17,131 EXP and 125 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith and Carpenter.