Ingot to Wing It
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Required Items
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 210,850 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 68 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Hammer and Sails, returns 806,710 EXP for the same allowance, 283% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 210,850 EXP to 806,710 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 283%, so the wrong pick leaves 595,860 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 70 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 693,190 EXP per allowance, 14% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 66 rung behind tops out at 625,040 EXP.
At Lv 68 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 550,185 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,189,544 EXP, which puts this leve 62% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 1,747 gil per allowance is 2nd of 3 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 3,494 gil.
Molybdenum Ingot ×1 is a Lv 68 Blacksmith recipe, a single step, costing 5 units of raw material and 5 crystals.
Handing that in returns 42,170 EXP and 349 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.