The Bitter, the Better
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 932 gil, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 52 Botanist fieldcraft leves that record gil — a figure 1 other leve on the rung matches exactly. The best of them, Ladies and Gentians, returns 1,062 gil for the same allowance, 14% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Botanist fieldcraft leve returns 1,097 gil per allowance, 3% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 834 gil.
At Lv 52 this data holds 72 leves paying gil across 4 categories: the 9 Fieldcraft ones average 917 gil per allowance, the 3 Battlecraft ones 1,141 gil and the 24 Tradecraft ones 622 gil, which puts this leve 2% above its own category's average.
Tailfeather, The Dravanian Forelands issues 13 leves in this dataset, Lv 50 through Lv 56, across 4 disciplines.