Something in My Eye

One allowance here buys 498,820 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 76 Weaver tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, All-purpose Overgarments, returns 1,425,640 EXP for the same allowance, 186% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 498,820 EXP to 1,425,640 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 186%, so the wrong pick leaves 926,820 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 78 Weaver tradecraft leve returns 1,509,210 EXP per allowance, 6% 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 34% below its own category's average.

Ovim Wool Turban of Gathering ×1 is a Lv 77 Weaver recipe, 4 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 21 units of raw material and 52 crystals.

Handing that in returns 23,753 EXP and 79 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist 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 1,496,460 EXP and 4,971 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 1,496,460 EXP per allowance.