Soft Shoe Shuffle
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 83,050 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 6 Lv 35 Leatherworker tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Springtime for Coerthas, returns 94,160 EXP for the same allowance, 13% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 14,940 EXP to 94,160 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 530%, so the wrong pick leaves 79,220 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 40 Leatherworker tradecraft leve returns 125,680 EXP per allowance, 33% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 30 rung behind tops out at 67,730 EXP.
At Lv 35 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 61,959 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 378,392 EXP, which puts this leve 34% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 407 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 661 gil.
Peisteskin Crakows ×1 is a Lv 38 Leatherworker recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 7 units of raw material and 17 crystals.
Handing that in returns 11,864 EXP and 58 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Blacksmith and Leatherworker.