Creative Chocolate
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 2,382,950 EXP, the best of the 2 Lv 94 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 2,041,900 EXP, 14% less.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 96 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 2,952,300 EXP per allowance, 24% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 92 rung behind tops out at 2,230,900 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 3% below its own category's average.
Gateau au Chocolat ×3 is a Lv 95 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 24 units of raw material and 45 crystals.
Handing that in returns 99,290 EXP and 213 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.