Like Lemon on a Lumbercut (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 146,400 EXP works out to 14,640 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 54 Carpenter Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, Fruit of the Loom (L), returns 260,272 EXP for the same allowance, 1,678% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 14,640 EXP to 260,272 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 1,678%, so the wrong pick leaves 245,632 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Carpenter Grand Company leve returns 361,242 EXP per allowance, 39% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 233,194 EXP.

At Lv 54 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 205,186 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 938,680 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 400,590 EXP, which puts this leve 93% below its own category's average.

Dark Chestnut Lumber ×1 is a Lv 54 Carpenter recipe, a single step, costing 5 units of raw material and 4 crystals.

Handing that in returns 29,280 EXP and 218 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.

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 878,400 EXP and 6,552 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 87,840 EXP per allowance.