Wooden Ambitions (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 1,861,440 EXP works out to 186,144 EXP per allowance, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 56 Carpenter Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, A Sky Pirate's Life for Me (L), returns 361,242 EXP for the same allowance, 94% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 53,496 EXP to 361,242 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 575%, so the wrong pick leaves 307,746 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Carpenter Grand Company leve returns 266,415 EXP per allowance, 26% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 260,272 EXP.

At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 195,640 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,032,386 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 390,755 EXP, which puts this leve 5% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 562 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 562 gil.

Hallowed Chestnut Armillae ×3 is a Lv 58 Carpenter recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 69 units of raw material and 138 crystals over 3 crafts.

Handing that in returns 26,977 EXP and 81 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist and Carpenter.