West Meats East

One allowance here buys 275,830 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 66 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Persimmony Snicket, returns 459,720 EXP for the same allowance, 67% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 275,830 EXP to 459,720 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 67%, so the wrong pick leaves 183,890 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 68 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 466,220 EXP per allowance, 1% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 64 rung behind tops out at 326,200 EXP.

At Lv 66 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 510,818 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,156,384 EXP, which puts this leve 46% below its own category's average.

Nomad Meat Pie ×3 is a Lv 66 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 14 units of raw material and 23 crystals.

Handing that in returns 19,702 EXP and 63 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 827,490 EXP and 2,637 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 827,490 EXP per allowance.