Cooking for the Future
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 450,200 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 76 Blacksmith tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Idol Hands, returns 1,256,820 EXP for the same allowance, 179% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 450,200 EXP to 1,256,820 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 179%, so the wrong pick leaves 806,620 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 78 Blacksmith tradecraft leve returns 1,103,750 EXP per allowance, 12% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 74 rung behind tops out at 646,380 EXP.
At Lv 76 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 754,791 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,812,275 EXP, which puts this leve 40% below its own category's average.
Titanbronze Culinary Knife ×1 is a Lv 77 Blacksmith recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 17 units of raw material and 42 crystals.
Handing that in returns 26,482 EXP and 97 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Blacksmith, Carpenter and Goldsmith.
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 1,350,600 EXP and 4,971 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 1,350,600 EXP per allowance.