Earring Awakening
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 815,150 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 82 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, A Wristy Experiment, returns 846,040 EXP for the same allowance, 4% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 84 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 1,255,600 EXP per allowance, 48% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 80 rung behind tops out at 935,000 EXP.
At Lv 82 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,208,998 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,464,410 EXP, which puts this leve 33% below its own category's average.
Palm Ear Cuffs of Fending ×1 is a Lv 82 Carpenter recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 17 units of raw material and 47 crystals.
Handing that in returns 47,950 EXP and 144 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Carpenter and Goldsmith.