Wand-full Tonight

One allowance here buys 9,990 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 6 Lv 10 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Using Your Arcane Powers for Fun and Profit, returns 12,030 EXP for the same allowance, 20% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 6,880 EXP to 12,030 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 75%, so the wrong pick leaves 5,150 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 15 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 22,790 EXP per allowance, 89% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 5 rung behind tops out at 6,280 EXP.

At Lv 10 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 8,265 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 43,676 EXP, which puts this leve 21% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 191 gil per allowance is 3rd of 6 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 284 gil.

Budding Maple Wand ×1 is a Lv 11 Alchemist recipe, 4 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 10 units of raw material and 8 crystals.

Handing that in returns 999 EXP and 19 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.