Playing the Market

One allowance here buys 339,520 EXP, which places it 2nd 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, 67% 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 22% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 1,040 gil per allowance is 3rd of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 3,840 gil.

White Oak Necklace ×1 is a Lv 71 Carpenter recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 17 units of raw material and 34 crystals.

Handing that in returns 19,972 EXP and 61 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Carpenter and Weaver.