Zelkova, My Love
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 180,810 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 68 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Putting Your Line on the Neck, returns 556,350 EXP for the same allowance, 208% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 180,810 EXP to 556,350 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 208%, so the wrong pick leaves 375,540 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 70 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 565,870 EXP per allowance, 2% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 66 rung behind tops out at 739,840 EXP.
At Lv 68 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 550,185 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,189,544 EXP, which puts this leve 67% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 1,747 gil per allowance is 2nd of 3 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 2,621 gil.
Zelkova Lumber ×1 is a Lv 68 Carpenter recipe, a single step, costing 4 units of raw material and 5 crystals.
Handing that in returns 45,203 EXP and 437 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.