Bow Down to Magic
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 85,460 EXP, which places it 4th of the 6 Lv 45 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Trident and Error, returns 168,310 EXP for the same allowance, 97% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 26,790 EXP to 168,310 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 528%, so the wrong pick leaves 141,520 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 50 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 334,080 EXP per allowance, 98% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 40 rung behind tops out at 102,600 EXP.
At Lv 45 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 98,250 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 733,026 EXP, which puts this leve 13% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 1,145 gil per allowance is 1st of 6 on the same rung against 4th on EXP, with the best there paying 1,145 gil.
Crab Bow ×1 is a Lv 49 Carpenter recipe, 3 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 14 units of raw material and 30 crystals.
Handing that in returns 6,104 EXP and 82 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.