A Gift of Gloves
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,703,250 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 88 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Additions to the Armoire, returns 2,257,300 EXP for the same allowance, 33% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 90 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 1,440,660 EXP per allowance, 36% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 86 rung behind tops out at 1,503,270 EXP.
At Lv 88 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,852,163 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 3,242,290 EXP, which puts this leve 8% below its own category's average.
Chondrite Gloves of Casting ×1 is a Lv 88 Armorer recipe, 2 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 27 units of raw material and 56 crystals.
Handing that in returns 63,083 EXP and 186 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Armorer, Blacksmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.