A Reward Fitting of the Faithful

One allowance here buys 154,140 EXP, which places it 3rd 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, 175% 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 54% below its own category's average.

Holy Cedar Necklace ×1 is a Lv 54 Carpenter recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 23 units of raw material and 33 crystals.

Handing that in returns 6,702 EXP and 14 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist and Carpenter.

The record carries a repeats value of 2. This site reads that as 2 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 462,420 EXP and 945 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 462,420 EXP per allowance.