Dancing with the Stars
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 18,490 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 25 Goldsmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Keep the Change, returns 36,390 EXP for the same allowance, 97% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 18,490 EXP to 36,390 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 97%, so the wrong pick leaves 17,900 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 30 Goldsmith tradecraft leve returns 67,730 EXP per allowance, 86% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 20 rung behind tops out at 21,600 EXP.
At Lv 25 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 31,772 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 204,269 EXP, which puts this leve 42% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 277 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 6th on EXP, with the best there paying 485 gil.
Toothed Staghorn Staff ×1 is a Lv 25 Goldsmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 6 units of raw material and 6 crystals.
Handing that in returns 3,082 EXP and 46 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.