Play It by Ear
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 376,120 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 60 Goldsmith tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 266,920 EXP, 29% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 207,330 EXP to 376,120 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 81%, so the wrong pick leaves 168,790 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 62 Goldsmith tradecraft leve returns 486,300 EXP per allowance, 29% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 58 rung behind tops out at 427,710 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 10% below its own category's average.
Triphane Earrings of Healing ×1 is a Lv 61 Goldsmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 13 units of raw material and 14 crystals.
Handing that in returns 28,932 EXP and 144 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.