Hunger Is No Game
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 416,270 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 62 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 333,110 EXP, 20% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 149,970 EXP to 416,270 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 178%, so the wrong pick leaves 266,300 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 64 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 326,200 EXP per allowance, 22% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 60 rung behind tops out at 323,710 EXP.
At Lv 62 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 417,590 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,118,055 EXP, which puts this leve -0% above its own category's average.
Popoto Soba ×3 is a Lv 63 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 6 units of raw material and 7 crystals.
Handing that in returns 69,378 EXP and 343 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.