Reeling for Rods

One allowance here buys 428,540 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 60 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Walk the Walk, returns 812,920 EXP for the same allowance, 90% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 94,630 EXP to 812,920 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 759%, so the wrong pick leaves 718,290 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 62 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 705,130 EXP per allowance, 13% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 58 rung behind tops out at 484,390 EXP.

At Lv 60 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 415,953 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,098,783 EXP, which puts this leve 3% above its own category's average.

Muudhorn Fishing Rod ×1 is a Lv 61 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 14 units of raw material and 14 crystals.

Handing that in returns 30,610 EXP and 134 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith and Carpenter.