Maul Me
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Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 2,845,080 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 96 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Bladewinner, returns 4,125,360 EXP for the same allowance, 45% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 98 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 4,664,730 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 94 rung behind tops out at 3,559,400 EXP.
At Lv 96 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 3,345,087 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 6,726,582 EXP, which puts this leve 15% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 5,140 gil per allowance is 1st of 2 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 5,140 gil.
Titanium Gold Maul ×1 is a Lv 97 Blacksmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 22 units of raw material and 48 crystals.
Handing that in returns 129,322 EXP and 234 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith and Carpenter.