If I Could Walk a Thousand Malms
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 919,160 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 76 Leatherworker tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Protecting the Nuts, returns 1,425,640 EXP for the same allowance, 55% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 551,490 EXP to 1,425,640 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 159%, so the wrong pick leaves 874,150 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 78 Leatherworker tradecraft leve returns 1,606,520 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 74 rung behind tops out at 937,250 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.
Gil ranks it differently: 4,589 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 4,589 gil.
Zonureskin Shoes of Gathering ×1 is a Lv 77 Leatherworker recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 22 units of raw material and 46 crystals.
Handing that in returns 41,780 EXP and 209 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist, Goldsmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.