Almost as Fun as Slingshotting Birds

One allowance here buys 144,480 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 50 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, So You Think You Can Lance?, returns 334,080 EXP for the same allowance, 131% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 103,350 EXP to 334,080 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 223%, so the wrong pick leaves 230,730 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 52 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 423,990 EXP per allowance, 27% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 45 rung behind tops out at 168,310 EXP.

At Lv 50 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 238,216 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 834,862 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 132,961 EXP, which puts this leve 39% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 248 gil per allowance is 3rd of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 686 gil.

Cedar Longbow ×1 is a Lv 51 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 18 units of raw material and 12 crystals.

Handing that in returns 8,027 EXP and 14 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith, Carpenter and Weaver.