Hauberk and No Play

One allowance here buys 211,350 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 50 Armorer tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 200,450 EXP, 5% less.

Across that rung the return runs from 88,620 EXP to 211,350 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 138%, so the wrong pick leaves 122,730 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 52 Armorer tradecraft leve returns 555,260 EXP per allowance, 163% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 45 rung behind tops out at 152,230 EXP.

At Lv 50 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 238,216 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 834,862 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 132,961 EXP, which puts this leve 11% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 624 gil per allowance is 2nd of 3 on the same rung against 1st on EXP, with the best there paying 686 gil.

Mythrite Hauberk of Maiming ×1 is a Lv 51 Armorer recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 35 units of raw material and 31 crystals.

Handing that in returns 6,039 EXP and 18 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Armorer, Blacksmith, Goldsmith and Leatherworker.