Practical Command
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,248,870 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 86 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Nearly There, returns 2,028,020 EXP for the same allowance, 62% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 88 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 2,297,800 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 84 rung behind tops out at 1,746,150 EXP.
At Lv 86 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,557,007 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,953,920 EXP, which puts this leve 20% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 5,000 gil per allowance is 1st of 2 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 5,000 gil.
Commanding Craftsman's Draught ×3 is a Lv 87 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 8 units of raw material and 16 crystals.
Handing that in returns 156,109 EXP and 625 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.