(Don't) Love the Skin You're In
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 154,140 EXP, which places it 4th of the 6 Lv 52 Leatherworker tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Maybe He's a Lion, returns 480,670 EXP for the same allowance, 212% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 25,691 EXP to 480,670 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1771%, so the wrong pick leaves 454,979 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Leatherworker tradecraft leve returns 560,140 EXP per allowance, 17% 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 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 251,119 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 576,023 EXP, which puts this leve 39% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 270 gil per allowance is 5th of 6 on the same rung against 4th on EXP, with the best there paying 811 gil.
Wyvernskin Cuffs of Aiming ×1 is a Lv 52 Leatherworker recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 19 units of raw material and 19 crystals.
Handing that in returns 8,113 EXP and 14 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Goldsmith, Leatherworker and Weaver.