Punching Your Way to Success

One allowance here buys 395,450 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 50 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Barring the Gates to Foundation, returns 456,810 EXP for the same allowance, 16% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 70,850 EXP to 456,810 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 545%, so the wrong pick leaves 385,960 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 52 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 629,850 EXP per allowance, 38% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 45 rung behind tops out at 137,400 EXP.

At Lv 50 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 238,216 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 834,862 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 132,961 EXP, which puts this leve 66% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 686 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 686 gil.

Mythrite Patas ×1 is a Lv 51 Blacksmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 30 units of raw material and 33 crystals.

Handing that in returns 13,182 EXP and 23 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.