Smells of Rich Tama-hagane
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 280,630 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 66 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Art Imitates Life, returns 969,450 EXP for the same allowance, 245% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 280,630 EXP to 969,450 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 245%, so the wrong pick leaves 688,820 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 68 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 681,530 EXP per allowance, 30% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 64 rung behind tops out at 709,140 EXP.
At Lv 66 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 510,818 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,156,384 EXP, which puts this leve 45% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 1,622 gil per allowance is 2nd of 3 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 3,245 gil.
Tama-hagane Ingot ×1 is a Lv 66 Blacksmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 9 units of raw material and 9 crystals.
Handing that in returns 31,181 EXP and 180 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.