Landing the Big One

One allowance here buys 349,400 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 52 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Do You Even String Bow, returns 423,990 EXP for the same allowance, 21% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 154,140 EXP to 423,990 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 175%, so the wrong pick leaves 269,850 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 473,220 EXP per allowance, 12% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 334,080 EXP.

At Lv 52 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 337,743 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 868,208 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 177,755 EXP, which puts this leve 3% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 749 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 749 gil.

Cedar Fishing Rod ×1 is a Lv 52 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 23 units of raw material and 18 crystals.

Handing that in returns 15,191 EXP and 33 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith and Carpenter.