Scouting Talent
Location
Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,582,910 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 82 Leatherworker tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 1,051,810 EXP, 34% less.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 84 Leatherworker tradecraft leve returns 1,725,980 EXP per allowance, 9% 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 31% above its own category's average.
Luncheon Toadskin Jacket of Scouting ×1 is a Lv 83 Leatherworker recipe, 2 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 31 units of raw material and 63 crystals.
Handing that in returns 51,062 EXP and 159 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.