Attack on Titanium (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 1,801,390 EXP works out to 180,139 EXP per allowance, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 56 Blacksmith Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay (L), returns 402,314 EXP for the same allowance, 123% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 53,496 EXP to 402,314 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 652%, so the wrong pick leaves 348,818 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Blacksmith Grand Company leve returns 446,249 EXP per allowance, 11% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 260,272 EXP.

At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 195,640 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,032,386 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 390,755 EXP, which puts this leve 8% below its own category's average.

Titanium Ingot ×5 is a Lv 56 Blacksmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 55 units of raw material and 45 crystals over 5 crafts.

Handing that in returns 32,753 EXP and 91 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.