Dappling the Highlands (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 427,710 EXP works out to 42,771 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 58 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, There Was a Late Fee, returns 811,360 EXP for the same allowance, 1797% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 42,771 EXP to 811,360 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1797%, so the wrong pick leaves 768,589 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 60 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 812,920 EXP per allowance, 0% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 56 rung behind tops out at 534,960 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 87% below its own category's average.

Growth Formula Zeta ×1 is a Lv 58 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 6 units of raw material and 5 crystals.

Handing that in returns 71,285 EXP and 234 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.

The record carries a repeats value of 5. This site reads that as 5 further turn-ins on the same leve — an assumption, because the source data defines no meaning for the field — which would put the ceiling at 2,566,260 EXP and 8,424 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 256,626 EXP per allowance.