Such a Butter Face
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 310,610 EXP, the best of the 6 Lv 52 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 274,810 EXP, 12% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 35,536 EXP to 310,610 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 774%, so the wrong pick leaves 275,074 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 459,310 EXP per allowance, 48% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 343,900 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 24% above its own category's average.
Fermented Butter ×3 is a Lv 53 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 5 units of raw material and 7 crystals.
Handing that in returns 62,122 EXP and 162 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.