Friends Are Food
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,713,570 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 90 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 1,440,660 EXP, 16% less.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 92 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 2,230,900 EXP per allowance, 30% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 88 rung behind tops out at 1,595,390 EXP.
At Lv 90 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 1,797,551 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 4,395,018 EXP, which puts this leve 5% below its own category's average.
Boiled Alpaca Steak ×3 is a Lv 91 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 14 units of raw material and 31 crystals.
Handing that in returns 122,398 EXP and 361 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.