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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,443,780 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 86 Leatherworker tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Grips of Fear, returns 1,503,270 EXP for the same allowance, 4% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 88 Leatherworker tradecraft leve returns 1,703,250 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 84 rung behind tops out at 1,725,980 EXP.
At Lv 86 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,557,007 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,953,920 EXP, which puts this leve 7% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 5,000 gil per allowance is 1st of 2 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 5,000 gil.
Kumbhiraskin Boots of Gathering ×1 is a Lv 87 Leatherworker recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 20 units of raw material and 48 crystals.
Handing that in returns 72,189 EXP and 250 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Carpenter and Leatherworker.