Cutting Edge of Culinary Quality
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,902,430 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 94 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, I Like Big Brush and I Cannot Lie, returns 3,559,400 EXP for the same allowance, 87% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 96 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 4,125,360 EXP per allowance, 16% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 92 rung behind tops out at 3,115,640 EXP.
At Lv 94 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 2,447,593 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 5,803,754 EXP, which puts this leve 22% below its own category's average.
Magnesia Whetstone ×3 is a Lv 95 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 12 units of raw material and 24 crystals over 3 crafts.
Handing that in returns 158,536 EXP and 213 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.