Super Dark Times
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 738,830 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 78 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, A Happy End, returns 828,030 EXP for the same allowance, 12% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 258,410 EXP to 828,030 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 220%, so the wrong pick leaves 569,620 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 80 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 724,620 EXP per allowance, 12% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 76 rung behind tops out at 689,550 EXP.
At Lv 78 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 955,432 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 2,129,178 EXP, which puts this leve 23% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 4,838 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 4,838 gil.
Risotto al Nero ×3 is a Lv 78 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 14 units of raw material and 26 crystals.
Handing that in returns 52,774 EXP and 346 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.