Built to Last

One allowance here buys 183,900 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 70 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Just Starting Out, returns 565,870 EXP for the same allowance, 208% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 183,900 EXP to 565,870 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 208%, so the wrong pick leaves 381,970 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 72 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 826,240 EXP per allowance, 46% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 68 rung behind tops out at 556,350 EXP.

At Lv 70 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 433,208 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,302,824 EXP, which puts this leve 58% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 1,920 gil per allowance is 2nd of 3 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 3,840 gil.

White Oak Lumber ×1 is a Lv 71 Carpenter recipe, a single step, costing 4 units of raw material and 6 crystals.

Handing that in returns 45,975 EXP and 480 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.