The Right Tool for the Job
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 919,160 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 76 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 750,330 EXP, 18% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 652,790 EXP to 919,160 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 41%, so the wrong pick leaves 266,370 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 78 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 1,103,750 EXP per allowance, 20% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 74 rung behind tops out at 646,380 EXP.
At Lv 76 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 754,791 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,812,275 EXP, which puts this leve 22% above its own category's average.
Sandteak Rod ×1 is a Lv 76 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 24 units of raw material and 45 crystals.
Handing that in returns 38,298 EXP and 191 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Carpenter and Goldsmith.