Maintaining the Maintainers
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 2,454,760 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 94 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Dagger Swagger, returns 3,559,400 EXP for the same allowance, 45% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 96 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 4,125,360 EXP per allowance, 16% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 92 rung behind tops out at 3,115,640 EXP.
At Lv 94 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 2,447,593 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 5,803,754 EXP, which puts this leve 0% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 5,100 gil per allowance is 1st of 2 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 5,100 gil.
Cobalt Tungsten File ×1 is a Lv 94 Blacksmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 23 units of raw material and 47 crystals.
Handing that in returns 106,729 EXP and 222 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith and Weaver.