Goldsmith Leveling Guide

The 125 Goldsmith leves in this guide sit on 35 level rungs between Lv 1 and Lv 98, issued at 14 camps. Ul'dah is the fixed point — it issues on every rung up to Lv 45 while the second issuer rotates through the field camps — and from Lv 50 up each rung has exactly one.

The best EXP per allowance on a rung climbs from 1,690 at Lv 1 to 4,183,380 at Lv 98, but the climb is not steady: 8 rungs pay less than the rung below, the worst being Lv 56 at 379,930, down 41% on Lv 54.

Picking within a rung can matter more than which rung you are on: at Lv 52 the 3 leves on the board pay between 109,390 and 629,850 EXP for the same single allowance, a gap of 5.8×.

27 of the 125 carry a repeat count of 2, and they pay less per turn-in than the one-shot leve beside them on 20 of the 21 rungs offering both. Counted as 3 turn-ins for a single allowance — the count is in the data, reading it as 3 deliveries is this site's assumption — the repeatable leve is still the better use of that allowance at 18 of those 21 rungs; take the one-shot at Lv 52, Lv 62, Lv 66.

Take the best leve on each of the 35 rungs and the Goldsmith ladder is worth 33,842,190 EXP for 35 allowances — 5th of the 8 crafting guides, 14% behind Weaver.