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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 10,100 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 15 Goldsmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Bad to the Bone, returns 24,790 EXP for the same allowance, 145% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 10,100 EXP to 24,790 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 145%, so the wrong pick leaves 14,690 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 20 Goldsmith tradecraft leve returns 21,600 EXP per allowance, 13% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 10 rung behind tops out at 9,990 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 39% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 223 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 6th on EXP, with the best there paying 529 gil.
Bat Fang Needle ×1 is a Lv 16 Goldsmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 3 units of raw material and 3 crystals.
Handing that in returns 3,367 EXP and 74 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.