Bobbing for Compliments
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 866,040 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 82 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, At Any Temperature, returns 1,062,190 EXP for the same allowance, 23% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 84 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 1,160,960 EXP per allowance, 9% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 80 rung behind tops out at 724,620 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 28% below its own category's average.
Island Miq'abob ×3 is a Lv 82 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 10 units of raw material and 23 crystals.
Handing that in returns 86,604 EXP and 491 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.