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What the allowance actually buys
At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 2,512,500 EXP works out to 251,250 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 6 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, 82% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 11,808 EXP to 456,810 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 3769%, so the wrong pick leaves 445,002 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 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 176,840 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 553,899 EXP, which puts this leve 42% above its own category's average.
Mythrite Katzbalger ×3 is a Lv 51 Blacksmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 96 units of raw material and 78 crystals over 3 crafts.
Handing that in returns 26,172 EXP and 36 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Blacksmith, Carpenter and Leatherworker.