One Last Meal
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 419,490 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 74 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 332,230 EXP, 21% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 258,670 EXP to 419,490 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 62%, so the wrong pick leaves 160,820 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 76 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 689,550 EXP per allowance, 64% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 72 rung behind tops out at 713,410 EXP.
At Lv 74 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 514,135 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,574,264 EXP, which puts this leve 18% below its own category's average.
Mushroom Saute ×3 is a Lv 75 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 12 units of raw material and 26 crystals.
Handing that in returns 34,958 EXP and 271 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.