Quit Your Jib-jab
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 106,480 EXP, the best on the Lv 45 Alchemist tradecraft rung — matched exactly by 1 other leve of the 6 there, with the rest trailing at 95,350 EXP or less.
Across that rung the return runs from 51,270 EXP to 106,480 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 108%, so the wrong pick leaves 55,210 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 50 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 334,080 EXP per allowance, 214% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 40 rung behind tops out at 94,280 EXP.
At Lv 45 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 98,250 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 733,026 EXP, which puts this leve 8% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 499 gil per allowance is 3rd of 6 on the same rung against 1st on EXP, with the best there paying 557 gil.
Gold Needle ×3 is a Lv 46 Alchemist recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 6 units of raw material and 16 crystals.
Handing that in returns 17,747 EXP and 83 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist and Goldsmith.