Driving Up the Wall
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 7,170 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 15 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Nothing to Hide, returns 24,790 EXP for the same allowance, 246% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 7,170 EXP to 24,790 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 246%, so the wrong pick leaves 17,620 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 20 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 28,010 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 10 rung behind tops out at 13,090 EXP.
At Lv 15 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 16,554 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 78,432 EXP, which puts this leve 57% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 350 gil per allowance is 1st of 6 on the same rung against 6th on EXP, with the best there paying 350 gil.
Elm Lumber ×1 is a Lv 16 Carpenter recipe, a single step, costing 3 units of raw material and 1 crystal.
Handing that in returns 2,390 EXP and 117 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.