A Stickler for Carrots
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,160,960 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 84 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 1,113,470 EXP, 4% less.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 86 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 1,471,010 EXP per allowance, 27% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 82 rung behind tops out at 1,062,190 EXP.
At Lv 84 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,208,414 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 2,702,320 EXP, which puts this leve 4% below its own category's average.
Carrot Nibbles ×3 is a Lv 85 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 10 units of raw material and 22 crystals.
Handing that in returns 116,096 EXP and 496 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.