The Nutcracker's Sweets
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 316,760 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 6 Lv 54 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Breakfast of Champions, returns 459,310 EXP for the same allowance, 45% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 38,978 EXP to 459,310 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1078%, so the wrong pick leaves 420,332 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 409,190 EXP per allowance, 11% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 310,610 EXP.
At Lv 54 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 296,533 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 622,778 EXP, which puts this leve 7% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 1,061 gil per allowance is 1st of 6 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 1,061 gil.
Royal Eggs ×3 is a Lv 57 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 5 intermediates, costing 19 units of raw material and 34 crystals.
Handing that in returns 16,672 EXP and 56 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.