Silver Bar of Upcycling (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 633,220 EXP works out to 63,322 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 56 Goldsmith Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, With a Noise That Reaches Heaven (L), returns 180,139 EXP for the same allowance, 184% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 63,322 EXP to 180,139 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 184%, so the wrong pick leaves 116,817 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Goldsmith Grand Company leve returns 235,244 EXP per allowance, 31% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 355,883 EXP.

At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 195,640 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,032,386 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 390,755 EXP, which puts this leve 68% below its own category's average.

Hardsilver Planisphere ×1 is a Lv 57 Goldsmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 8 intermediates, costing 48 units of raw material and 55 crystals.

Handing that in returns 13,192 EXP and 28 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Blacksmith and Goldsmith.

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 3,799,320 EXP and 7,956 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 379,932 EXP per allowance.