Knock on Wood
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Required Items
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 31,070 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 30 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Live Freelance or Die, returns 67,730 EXP for the same allowance, 118% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 31,070 EXP to 67,730 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 118%, so the wrong pick leaves 36,660 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 35 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 105,270 EXP per allowance, 55% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 25 rung behind tops out at 47,200 EXP.
At Lv 30 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 44,832 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 275,323 EXP, which puts this leve 31% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 377 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 6th on EXP, with the best there paying 593 gil.
Walnut Macuahuitl ×1 is a Lv 34 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 5 units of raw material and 9 crystals.
Handing that in returns 6,214 EXP and 75 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.