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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 6,840 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 6 Lv 5 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Strait Ain't the Gate, returns 8,460 EXP for the same allowance, 24% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 5,220 EXP to 8,460 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 62%, so the wrong pick leaves 3,240 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 10 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 13,090 EXP per allowance, 55% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 1 rung behind tops out at 1,690 EXP.
At Lv 5 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 4,554 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 28,481 EXP, which puts this leve 50% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 144 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 173 gil.
Bronze Haubergeon ×1 is a Lv 6 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 11 units of raw material and 10 crystals.
Handing that in returns 622 EXP and 13 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Weaver.