Hat in Hand
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Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 3,780 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 10 Weaver tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Making Gloves Out of Nothing at All, returns 13,090 EXP for the same allowance, 246% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 3,780 EXP to 13,090 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 246%, so the wrong pick leaves 9,310 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 15 Weaver tradecraft leve returns 24,790 EXP per allowance, 89% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 5 rung behind tops out at 8,460 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 54% below its own category's average.
Straw Hat ×1 is a Lv 11 Weaver recipe, a single step, costing 3 units of raw material and 2 crystals.
Handing that in returns 1,260 EXP and 56 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.