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One allowance here buys 418,810 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 72 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, A Stronger Offense, returns 826,240 EXP for the same allowance, 97% more.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 74 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 646,380 EXP per allowance, 22% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 70 rung behind tops out at 565,870 EXP.

At Lv 72 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 590,811 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,405,338 EXP, which puts this leve 29% below its own category's average.

Applewood Cane ×1 is a Lv 73 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 24 units of raw material and 41 crystals.

Handing that in returns 17,450 EXP and 62 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Carpenter and Goldsmith.

The record carries a repeats value of 2. This site reads that as 2 further turn-ins on the same leve — an assumption, because the source data defines no meaning for the field — which would put the ceiling at 1,256,430 EXP and 4,431 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 1,256,430 EXP per allowance.