Pep-stepper
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 491,260 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 68 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Ultimate Official Strategy Guide, returns 681,530 EXP for the same allowance, 39% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 219,640 EXP to 681,530 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 210%, so the wrong pick leaves 461,890 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 70 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 693,190 EXP per allowance, 2% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 66 rung behind tops out at 625,040 EXP.
At Lv 68 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 550,185 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,189,544 EXP, which puts this leve 11% below its own category's average.
Infusion of Vitality ×3 is a Lv 69 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 5 units of raw material and 3 crystals.
Handing that in returns 98,252 EXP and 349 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.