With a Bow on Top

One allowance here buys 408,920 EXP, which places it 2nd 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, 36% 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 26% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 1,262 gil per allowance is 3rd of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 2,621 gil.

Zelkova Longbow ×1 is a Lv 68 Carpenter recipe, 4 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 24 units of raw material and 36 crystals.

Handing that in returns 17,038 EXP and 53 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Carpenter and Weaver.