Old Victories, New Tastes
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 233,860 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 54 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Breakfast of Champions, returns 459,310 EXP for the same allowance, 96% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 233,860 EXP to 459,310 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 96%, so the wrong pick leaves 225,450 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 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 400,590 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 938,680 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 205,186 EXP, which puts this leve 42% below its own category's average.
Dhalmel Fricassee ×3 is a Lv 57 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 9 units of raw material and 16 crystals.
Handing that in returns 25,984 EXP and 43 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.
The record carries a repeats value of 2. This site reads that as 2 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 701,580 EXP and 1,149 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 701,580 EXP per allowance.