Volunteering with Staff
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 534,960 EXP, the best of the 6 Lv 56 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 438,880 EXP, 18% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 73,148 EXP to 534,960 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 631%, so the wrong pick leaves 461,812 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 811,360 EXP per allowance, 52% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 647,060 EXP.
At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 284,330 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 684,949 EXP, which puts this leve 88% above its own category's average.
Hallowed Chestnut Wand ×1 is a Lv 56 Alchemist recipe, 3 steps deep through 7 intermediates, costing 40 units of raw material and 44 crystals.
Handing that in returns 13,374 EXP and 25 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Carpenter and Goldsmith.