Kindling the Flame
Location
Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 495,550 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 78 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Off to a Good Staff, returns 1,103,750 EXP for the same allowance, 123% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 418,970 EXP to 1,103,750 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 163%, so the wrong pick leaves 684,780 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 80 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 935,000 EXP per allowance, 15% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 76 rung behind tops out at 919,160 EXP.
At Lv 78 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 955,432 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 2,129,178 EXP, which puts this leve 48% below its own category's average.
Lignum Vitae Ring ×1 is a Lv 79 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 9 units of raw material and 28 crystals.
Handing that in returns 55,061 EXP and 403 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Carpenter and Goldsmith.