Needle in a Hingan Stack
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 431,830 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 64 Goldsmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Cutting Deals, returns 709,140 EXP for the same allowance, 64% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 359,460 EXP to 709,140 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 97%, so the wrong pick leaves 349,680 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 66 Goldsmith tradecraft leve returns 1,084,260 EXP per allowance, 53% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 62 rung behind tops out at 486,300 EXP.
At Lv 64 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 435,661 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,139,405 EXP, which puts this leve 1% below its own category's average.
Dzo Horn Needle ×1 is a Lv 65 Goldsmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 13 units of raw material and 19 crystals.
Handing that in returns 33,218 EXP and 173 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Carpenter and Goldsmith.