Hitting Below the Belt
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Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 16,800 EXP, which places it 5th of the 6 Lv 20 Weaver tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, New Shoes, New Me, returns 28,010 EXP for the same allowance, 67% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 12,960 EXP to 28,010 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 116%, so the wrong pick leaves 15,050 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 25 Weaver tradecraft leve returns 47,200 EXP per allowance, 69% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 15 rung behind tops out at 24,790 EXP.
At Lv 20 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 17,352 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 113,304 EXP, which puts this leve 3% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 69 gil per allowance is 6th of 6 on the same rung against 5th on EXP, with the best there paying 348 gil.
Cotton Breeches of Crafting ×1 is a Lv 19 Weaver recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 7 units of raw material and 8 crystals.
Handing that in returns 2,400 EXP and 10 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Leatherworker and Weaver.