Magic Beans
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 225,670 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 60 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Spellbound, returns 812,920 EXP for the same allowance, 260% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 225,670 EXP to 812,920 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 260%, so the wrong pick leaves 587,250 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 62 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 595,710 EXP per allowance, 27% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 58 rung behind tops out at 811,360 EXP.
At Lv 60 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 415,953 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,098,783 EXP, which puts this leve 46% below its own category's average.
Growth Formula Eta ×1 is a Lv 61 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 4 units of raw material and 3 crystals.
Handing that in returns 56,418 EXP and 113 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 677,010 EXP and 1,353 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 677,010 EXP per allowance.