Pride Up in Smoke
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 211,350 EXP, the best on the Lv 50 Weaver tradecraft rung — matched exactly by 1 other leve of the 6 there, with the rest trailing at 163,630 EXP or less.
Across that rung the return runs from 27,272 EXP to 211,350 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 675%, so the wrong pick leaves 184,078 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 52 Weaver tradecraft leve returns 480,670 EXP per allowance, 127% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 45 rung behind tops out at 199,230 EXP.
At Lv 50 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 176,840 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 553,899 EXP, which puts this leve 20% above its own category's average.
Rainbow Cloth ×1 is a Lv 51 Weaver recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 7 units of raw material and 4 crystals.
Handing that in returns 30,193 EXP and 89 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.