Short-term Gains
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Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 2,456,744 EXP, the best on the Lv 78 Fisher fieldcraft rung — matched exactly by 1 other leve of the 3 there, with the rest trailing at 1,474,046 EXP or less.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 80 Fisher fieldcraft leve returns 2,459,716 EXP per allowance, 0% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 76 rung behind tops out at 2,091,086 EXP.
At Lv 78 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 3 Fieldcraft ones average 2,129,178 EXP per allowance, the 24 Tradecraft ones 955,432 EXP, which puts this leve 15% above its own category's average.
Nothing on the turn-in list is craftable in this data: Black Tri-star ×3 has no recipe here, so 3 units must come from gathering, a vendor or a drop.
Slitherbough, The Rak'tika Greatwood issues 8 leves in this dataset, Lv 74 through Lv 78, across 3 disciplines.