A Shorlonging for the Familiar
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 326,200 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 64 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 274,940 EXP, 16% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 251,370 EXP to 326,200 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 30%, so the wrong pick leaves 74,830 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 66 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 459,720 EXP per allowance, 41% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 62 rung behind tops out at 416,270 EXP.
At Lv 64 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 435,661 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,139,405 EXP, which puts this leve 25% below its own category's average.
Shorlog ×3 is a Lv 65 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 9 units of raw material and 15 crystals.
Handing that in returns 36,244 EXP and 250 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.