Rolling on Initiative
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 438,880 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 56 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Volunteering with Staff, returns 534,960 EXP for the same allowance, 22% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 338,440 EXP to 534,960 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 58%, so the wrong pick leaves 196,520 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 811,360 EXP per allowance, 52% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 647,060 EXP.
At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 390,755 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,032,386 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 195,640 EXP, which puts this leve 12% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 406 gil per allowance is 3rd of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 998 gil.
Draconian Potion of Dexterity ×3 is a Lv 58 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 8 units of raw material and 3 crystals.
Handing that in returns 54,860 EXP and 51 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.