Some Dragoons Have All the Luck
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 100,980 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 6 Lv 45 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Parasitic Win, returns 152,230 EXP for the same allowance, 51% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 26,790 EXP to 152,230 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 468%, so the wrong pick leaves 125,440 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 50 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 211,350 EXP per allowance, 39% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 40 rung behind tops out at 102,600 EXP.
At Lv 45 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 98,250 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 733,026 EXP, which puts this leve 3% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 430 gil per allowance is 5th of 6 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 804 gil.
High Mythril Armor ×1 is a Lv 44 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 28 units of raw material and 63 crystals.
Handing that in returns 3,606 EXP and 15 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith and Goldsmith.