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One allowance here buys 339,520 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 70 Leatherworker tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Girding for Glory, returns 820,510 EXP for the same allowance, 142% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 339,520 EXP to 820,510 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 142%, so the wrong pick leaves 480,990 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 72 Leatherworker tradecraft leve returns 826,240 EXP per allowance, 1% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 68 rung behind tops out at 1,182,260 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.

Smilodonskin Wristband ×1 is a Lv 71 Leatherworker recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 19 units of raw material and 32 crystals.

Handing that in returns 17,869 EXP and 73 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Goldsmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.

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 1,018,560 EXP and 4,161 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 1,018,560 EXP per allowance.