Shielding My Students
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,440,660 EXP — the identical figure every one of the 2 Lv 90 Armorer tradecraft leves pays, so on this rung the turn-in and the walk are the only things that actually differ.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 92 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 2,148,720 EXP per allowance, 49% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 88 rung behind tops out at 2,257,300 EXP.
At Lv 90 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,797,551 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 4,395,018 EXP, which puts this leve 20% below its own category's average.
Mountain Chromite Tower Shield ×1 is a Lv 91 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 19 units of raw material and 47 crystals.
Handing that in returns 75,824 EXP and 133 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Goldsmith.