Signed, Shield, Delivered
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 750,330 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 76 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 450,200 EXP, 40% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 284,370 EXP to 750,330 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 164%, so the wrong pick leaves 465,960 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 78 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 1,711,940 EXP per allowance, 128% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 74 rung behind tops out at 791,810 EXP.
At Lv 76 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 754,791 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,812,275 EXP, which puts this leve 1% below its own category's average.
Titanbronze Tower Shield ×1 is a Lv 77 Armorer recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 21 units of raw material and 39 crystals.
Handing that in returns 35,730 EXP and 219 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Goldsmith.