A Matter of Import
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Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 54,350 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 40 Weaver tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Cool to Be Southern, returns 125,680 EXP for the same allowance, 131% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 54,350 EXP to 125,680 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 131%, so the wrong pick leaves 71,330 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 45 Weaver tradecraft leve returns 199,230 EXP per allowance, 59% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 35 rung behind tops out at 115,720 EXP.
At Lv 40 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 72,545 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 560,212 EXP, which puts this leve 25% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 277 gil per allowance is 5th of 6 on the same rung against 6th on EXP, with the best there paying 631 gil.
Woolen Hat ×1 is a Lv 40 Weaver recipe, 3 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 7 units of raw material and 21 crystals.
Handing that in returns 7,764 EXP and 40 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.