Blast from the Pasta
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,595,390 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 88 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 1,592,240 EXP, -0% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 90 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 1,713,570 EXP per allowance, 7% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 86 rung behind tops out at 1,471,010 EXP.
At Lv 88 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,852,163 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 3,242,290 EXP, which puts this leve 14% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 5,020 gil per allowance is 2nd of 2 on the same rung against 1st on EXP, with the best there paying 5,040 gil.
The Noodles of Elpis ×3 is a Lv 88 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 17 units of raw material and 40 crystals.
Handing that in returns 93,846 EXP and 295 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.