One Foot Forward
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,306,480 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 78 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Trial and Error, returns 1,711,940 EXP for the same allowance, 31% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 540,610 EXP to 1,711,940 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 217%, so the wrong pick leaves 1,171,330 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 80 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 935,000 EXP per allowance, 45% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 76 rung behind tops out at 750,330 EXP.
At Lv 78 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 955,432 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 2,129,178 EXP, which puts this leve 37% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 4,838 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 4,838 gil.
Dwarven Mythril Shoes of Maiming ×1 is a Lv 78 Armorer recipe, 2 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 24 units of raw material and 45 crystals.
Handing that in returns 54,437 EXP and 202 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Armorer, Blacksmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.