A Better Conductor
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 933,280 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 84 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, In Rod We Trust, returns 1,255,600 EXP for the same allowance, 35% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 86 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 2,028,020 EXP per allowance, 62% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 82 rung behind tops out at 846,040 EXP.
At Lv 84 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,208,414 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,702,320 EXP, which puts this leve 23% below its own category's average.
Red Pine Lumber ×3 is a Lv 84 Carpenter recipe, a single step, costing 15 units of raw material and 24 crystals over 3 crafts.
Handing that in returns 62,219 EXP and 165 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.