Get Shirty
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 28,320 EXP, which places it 4th 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, 144% 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 11% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 273 gil per allowance is 5th of 6 on the same rung against 4th on EXP, with the best there paying 406 gil.
Steel Chainmail ×1 is a Lv 28 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 13 units of raw material and 23 crystals.
Handing that in returns 2,178 EXP and 21 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Weaver.