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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,332 gil, the best on the Lv 54 battlecraft rung — matched exactly by 1 other leve of the 6 there, with the rest trailing at 1,188 gil or less.
Across that rung the return runs from 781 gil to 1,332 gil per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 71%, so the wrong pick leaves 551 gil of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 battlecraft leve returns 1,504 gil per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 1,207 gil.
At Lv 54 this data holds 72 leves paying gil across 3 categories: the 6 Battlecraft ones average 1,057 gil per allowance, the 18 Fieldcraft ones 655 gil and the 48 Tradecraft ones 544 gil, which puts this leve 26% above its own category's average.
Foundation issues 360 leves in this dataset, Lv 50 through Lv 58, across 12 disciplines.