A Wristy Experiment
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 846,040 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 82 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 815,150 EXP, 4% less.
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 30% below its own category's average.
Palm Bracelets of Aiming ×1 is a Lv 83 Carpenter recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 17 units of raw material and 47 crystals.
Handing that in returns 49,767 EXP and 145 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Carpenter, Goldsmith and Leatherworker.