Neck on the Line
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 569,820 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 72 Goldsmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Slimming Down, returns 826,240 EXP for the same allowance, 45% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 341,890 EXP to 826,240 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 142%, so the wrong pick leaves 484,350 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 74 Goldsmith tradecraft leve returns 937,250 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 70 rung behind tops out at 693,190 EXP.
At Lv 72 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 590,811 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,405,338 EXP, which puts this leve 4% below its own category's average.
Diaspore Choker of Fending ×1 is a Lv 73 Goldsmith recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 20 units of raw material and 41 crystals.
Handing that in returns 28,491 EXP and 153 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.