Get into Their Heads

One allowance here buys 5,220 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 6 Lv 5 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP — a figure 3 other leves on the rung match exactly. The best of them, Strait Ain't the Gate, returns 8,460 EXP for the same allowance, 62% 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 15% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 144 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 173 gil.

Bronze Chain Coif ×1 is a Lv 8 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 10 units of raw material and 8 crystals.

Handing that in returns 522 EXP and 14 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Leatherworker.