His Dark Utensils
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 713,410 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 72 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 677,510 EXP, 5% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 391,120 EXP to 713,410 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 82%, so the wrong pick leaves 322,290 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 74 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 419,490 EXP per allowance, 41% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 70 rung behind tops out at 509,840 EXP.
At Lv 72 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 590,811 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,405,338 EXP, which puts this leve 21% above its own category's average.
Spaghetti al Nero ×3 is a Lv 73 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 20 units of raw material and 39 crystals.
Handing that in returns 35,671 EXP and 205 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.