Backing up My Words
Location
Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 4,554,260 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 96 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 3,059,520 EXP, 33% less.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 98 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 3,459,540 EXP per allowance, 24% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 94 rung behind tops out at 2,454,760 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 36% above its own category's average.
Titanium Gold Thornplate of Fending ×1 is a Lv 97 Armorer recipe, 2 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 39 units of raw material and 72 crystals.
Handing that in returns 116,776 EXP and 132 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Armorer, Blacksmith, Goldsmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.