Exploiting the Adroit (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 473,220 EXP works out to 47,322 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 54 Leatherworker Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, Eviction Notice (L), returns 308,078 EXP for the same allowance, 551% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 47,322 EXP to 308,078 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 551%, so the wrong pick leaves 260,756 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Leatherworker Grand Company leve returns 294,229 EXP per allowance, 4% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 264,372 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 77% below its own category's average.

Dhalmelskin Breeches of Maiming ×1 is a Lv 55 Leatherworker recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 23 units of raw material and 29 crystals.

Handing that in returns 20,575 EXP and 51 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Leatherworker and Weaver.

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 2,839,320 EXP and 7,020 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 283,932 EXP per allowance.