Old-school Spooling (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 1,823,250 EXP works out to 182,325 EXP per allowance, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 52 Goldsmith Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, Charting the Trends (L), returns 346,420 EXP for the same allowance, 90% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 18,232 EXP to 346,420 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 1,800%, so the wrong pick leaves 328,188 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Goldsmith Grand Company leve returns 355,883 EXP per allowance, 3% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 183,748 EXP.

At Lv 52 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 177,755 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 868,208 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 337,743 EXP, which puts this leve 3% above its own category's average.

Mythrite Needle ×3 is a Lv 52 Goldsmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 54 units of raw material and 60 crystals over 3 crafts.

Handing that in returns 33,764 EXP and 69 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith, Carpenter and Goldsmith.