A Labor of Love
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,201,060 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 78 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 1,103,750 EXP, 8% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 720,630 EXP to 1,201,060 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 67%, so the wrong pick leaves 480,430 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 80 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 1,355,750 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 76 rung behind tops out at 1,087,990 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 26% above its own category's average.
Tincture of Vitality ×3 is a Lv 79 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 7 units of raw material and 14 crystals.
Handing that in returns 171,580 EXP and 691 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.