Romper Stomper

One allowance here buys 26,530 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 30 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Aurochs Star, returns 67,730 EXP for the same allowance, 155% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 26,530 EXP to 67,730 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 155%, so the wrong pick leaves 41,200 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 35 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 82,760 EXP per allowance, 22% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 25 rung behind tops out at 69,150 EXP.

At Lv 30 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 44,832 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 275,323 EXP, which puts this leve 41% below its own category's average.

Steel-plated Jackboots ×1 is a Lv 30 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 9 units of raw material and 14 crystals.

Handing that in returns 2,948 EXP and 20 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Leatherworker.

The record carries a repeats value of 2. This site reads that as 2 further turn-ins on the same leve — an assumption, because the source data defines no meaning for the field — which would put the ceiling at 79,590 EXP and 528 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 79,590 EXP per allowance.