Warding Off Temptation
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Required Items
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 256,810 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 54 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Adhesive of Antipathy, returns 647,060 EXP for the same allowance, 152% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 256,810 EXP to 647,060 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 152%, so the wrong pick leaves 390,250 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 534,960 EXP per allowance, 17% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 480,670 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 36% below its own category's average.
Enchanted Hardsilver Ink ×1 is a Lv 54 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 7 units of raw material and 4 crystals.
Handing that in returns 36,687 EXP and 45 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 770,430 EXP and 945 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 770,430 EXP per allowance.