Ingot We Trust
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 16,080 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 25 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, A Leg to Stand On, returns 69,150 EXP for the same allowance, 330% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 16,080 EXP to 69,150 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 330%, so the wrong pick leaves 53,070 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 30 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 67,730 EXP per allowance, 2% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 20 rung behind tops out at 21,600 EXP.
At Lv 25 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 31,772 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 204,269 EXP, which puts this leve 49% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 287 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 6th on EXP, with the best there paying 406 gil.
Steel Ingot ×1 is a Lv 26 Blacksmith recipe, a single step, costing 3 units of raw material and 2 crystals.
Handing that in returns 5,360 EXP and 96 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.