Unconventional Weaponry (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 796,560 EXP works out to 79,656 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 54 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Keep Up with the Mechanics, returns 477,930 EXP for the same allowance, 500% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 79,656 EXP to 477,930 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 500%, so the wrong pick leaves 398,274 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 731,480 EXP per allowance, 53% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 629,850 EXP.

At Lv 54 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 296,533 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 622,778 EXP, which puts this leve 73% below its own category's average.

Titanium-barreled Arquebus ×1 is a Lv 54 Blacksmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 47 units of raw material and 40 crystals.

Handing that in returns 16,948 EXP and 23 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Blacksmith and Carpenter.

The record carries a repeats value of 5. This site reads that as 5 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 4,779,360 EXP and 6,552 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 477,936 EXP per allowance.