Body over Mind
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 846,040 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 82 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Luncheon Bound, returns 1,525,130 EXP for the same allowance, 80% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 84 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 1,746,150 EXP per allowance, 14% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 80 rung behind tops out at 1,355,750 EXP.
At Lv 82 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,208,998 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,464,410 EXP, which puts this leve 30% below its own category's average.
Grade 5 Dexterity Alkahest ×9 is a Lv 83 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 15 units of raw material and 24 crystals over 3 crafts.
Handing that in returns 56,403 EXP and 164 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.