What Not to Wear
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 480,670 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 52 Weaver tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 406,080 EXP, 16% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 198,900 EXP to 480,670 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 142%, so the wrong pick leaves 281,770 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Weaver tradecraft leve returns 560,140 EXP per allowance, 17% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 211,350 EXP.
At Lv 52 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 337,743 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 868,208 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 177,755 EXP, which puts this leve 42% above its own category's average.
Holy Rainbow Shirt of Striking ×1 is a Lv 53 Weaver recipe, 4 steps deep through 7 intermediates, costing 42 units of raw material and 40 crystals.
Handing that in returns 11,445 EXP and 19 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Blacksmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.