Through Thick and Thin
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 235,890 EXP, which places it 4th of the 6 Lv 58 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Winter Weather Conditions, returns 811,360 EXP for the same allowance, 244% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 102,934 EXP to 811,360 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 688%, so the wrong pick leaves 708,426 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 60 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 703,720 EXP per allowance, 13% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 56 rung behind tops out at 731,480 EXP.
At Lv 58 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 327,945 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 716,251 EXP, which puts this leve 28% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 1,123 gil per allowance is 2nd of 6 on the same rung against 4th on EXP, with the best there paying 1,248 gil.
Adamantite Nugget ×1 is a Lv 58 Blacksmith recipe, a single step, costing 6 units of raw material and 5 crystals.
Handing that in returns 39,315 EXP and 187 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.