Meet for Meat
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 509,840 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 70 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 290,850 EXP, 43% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 290,630 EXP to 509,840 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 75%, so the wrong pick leaves 219,210 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 72 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 713,410 EXP per allowance, 40% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 68 rung behind tops out at 466,220 EXP.
At Lv 70 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 433,208 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,302,824 EXP, which puts this leve 18% above its own category's average.
Grilled Rail ×3 is a Lv 71 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 8 units of raw material and 17 crystals.
Handing that in returns 63,730 EXP and 360 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.