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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 6,880 EXP, which places it 5th of the 6 Lv 10 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP — a figure 1 other leve on the rung matches exactly. The best of them, Greavous Losses, returns 13,090 EXP for the same allowance, 90% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 6,880 EXP to 13,090 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 90%, so the wrong pick leaves 6,210 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 15 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 18,910 EXP per allowance, 44% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 5 rung behind tops out at 8,460 EXP.
At Lv 10 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 8,265 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 43,676 EXP, which puts this leve 17% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 173 gil per allowance is 6th of 6 on the same rung against 5th on EXP, with the best there paying 350 gil.
Amateur's Skillet ×1 is a Lv 11 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 9 units of raw material and 6 crystals.
Handing that in returns 764 EXP and 19 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Carpenter.