A Budding Business
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 450,200 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 76 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Signed, Shield, Delivered, returns 750,330 EXP for the same allowance, 67% more.
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 40% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 1,657 gil per allowance is 3rd of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 4,589 gil.
Titanbronze Headband of Scouting ×1 is a Lv 76 Armorer recipe, 2 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 25 units of raw material and 44 crystals.
Handing that in returns 18,008 EXP and 66 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Armorer, Goldsmith and Leatherworker.