Soup That Eats Like a Knight
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 453,870 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 58 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 212,160 EXP, 53% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 170,500 EXP to 453,870 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 166%, so the wrong pick leaves 283,370 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 60 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 323,710 EXP per allowance, 29% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 56 rung behind tops out at 409,190 EXP.
At Lv 58 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 443,090 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,079,567 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 228,371 EXP, which puts this leve 2% above its own category's average.
Clam Chowder ×3 is a Lv 60 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 7 units of raw material and 11 crystals.
Handing that in returns 64,839 EXP and 178 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.