The Bards' Guards
Location
Required Items
Rewards
What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 5,330 EXP, which places it 5th of the 6 Lv 10 Leatherworker tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Only the Best, returns 9,990 EXP for the same allowance, 87% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 2,230 EXP to 9,990 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 348%, so the wrong pick leaves 7,760 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 15 Leatherworker tradecraft leve returns 18,910 EXP per allowance, 89% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 5 rung behind tops out at 6,840 EXP.
At Lv 10 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 8,265 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 43,676 EXP, which puts this leve 36% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 170 gil per allowance is 3rd of 6 on the same rung against 5th on EXP, with the best there paying 172 gil.
Hard Leather Wristguards ×1 is a Lv 10 Leatherworker recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 2 units of raw material and 3 crystals.
Handing that in returns 2,665 EXP and 85 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.