Burning the Midnight Oil
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 36,890 EXP, which places it 5th of the 6 Lv 35 Goldsmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Actually, It's Loyalty, returns 72,600 EXP for the same allowance, 97% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 30,230 EXP to 72,600 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 140%, so the wrong pick leaves 42,370 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 40 Goldsmith tradecraft leve returns 79,510 EXP per allowance, 10% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 30 rung behind tops out at 67,730 EXP.
At Lv 35 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 61,959 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 378,392 EXP, which puts this leve 40% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 156 gil per allowance is 6th of 6 on the same rung against 5th on EXP, with the best there paying 596 gil.
Fire Brand ×1 is a Lv 35 Goldsmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 5 units of raw material and 11 crystals.
Handing that in returns 7,378 EXP and 31 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.