Living Bow to Mouth (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 240,810 EXP works out to 24,081 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th of the 6 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, 1287% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 24,081 EXP to 334,080 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1287%, so the wrong pick leaves 309,999 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 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 176,840 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 553,899 EXP, which puts this leve 86% below its own category's average.

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 13,378 EXP and 48 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith, Carpenter and Weaver.

The record carries a repeats value of 5. This site reads that as 5 further turn-ins on the same leve — an assumption, because the source data defines no meaning for the field — which would put the ceiling at 1,444,860 EXP and 5,148 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 144,486 EXP per allowance.