Ace of Gloves
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Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,051,810 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 82 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, The Incomplete Costume, returns 1,582,910 EXP for the same allowance, 50% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 84 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 1,255,600 EXP per allowance, 21% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 80 rung behind tops out at 935,000 EXP.
At Lv 82 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,208,998 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,464,410 EXP, which puts this leve 13% below its own category's average.
High Durium Gauntlets of Fending ×1 is a Lv 82 Armorer recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 24 units of raw material and 47 crystals.
Handing that in returns 43,825 EXP and 205 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Goldsmith.