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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 2,454,760 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 94 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 1,902,430 EXP, 23% less.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 96 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 4,554,260 EXP per allowance, 86% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 92 rung behind tops out at 2,148,720 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.
Cobalt Tungsten Alembic ×1 is a Lv 95 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 25 units of raw material and 55 crystals.
Handing that in returns 98,190 EXP and 204 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Goldsmith.