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 6th of the 6 Lv 56 Goldsmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Appeasing the Astromancer, returns 379,930 EXP for the same allowance, 500% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 63,322 EXP to 379,930 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 500%, so the wrong pick leaves 316,608 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Goldsmith tradecraft leve returns 427,710 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 647,060 EXP.

At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 284,330 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 684,949 EXP, which puts this leve 78% 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.