Topping Up the Pot
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 696,220 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 80 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Salt of the North, returns 724,620 EXP for the same allowance, 4% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 82 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 1,062,190 EXP per allowance, 47% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 78 rung behind tops out at 828,030 EXP.
At Lv 80 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 854,332 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,459,716 EXP, which puts this leve 19% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 2,450 gil per allowance is 1st of 2 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 2,450 gil.
Zurek ×3 is a Lv 81 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 10 units of raw material and 23 crystals.
Handing that in returns 69,622 EXP and 245 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.