Cautionary Cutlery

One allowance here buys 198,900 EXP, which places it 5th of the 6 Lv 52 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, It's All about Execution, returns 629,850 EXP for the same allowance, 217% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 33,150 EXP to 629,850 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1800%, so the wrong pick leaves 596,700 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 477,930 EXP per allowance, 24% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 456,810 EXP.

At Lv 52 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 251,119 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 576,023 EXP, which puts this leve 21% below its own category's average.

Mythrite Culinary Knife ×1 is a Lv 53 Blacksmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 6 intermediates, costing 30 units of raw material and 33 crystals.

Handing that in returns 6,630 EXP and 10 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Blacksmith, Carpenter and Goldsmith.

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 596,700 EXP and 879 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 596,700 EXP per allowance.