Don't Let It Fall Apart
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 212,160 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 6 Lv 58 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Soup That Eats Like a Knight, returns 453,870 EXP for the same allowance, 114% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 35,360 EXP to 453,870 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1184%, so the wrong pick leaves 418,510 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 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 327,945 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 716,251 EXP, which puts this leve 35% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 428 gil per allowance is 5th of 6 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 1,248 gil.
Liver-cheese Sandwich ×3 is a Lv 59 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 13 units of raw material and 30 crystals.
Handing that in returns 16,320 EXP and 33 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.