Winter of Our Discontent
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 36,000 EXP, which places it 5th of the 6 Lv 35 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Rise and Dine, returns 79,780 EXP for the same allowance, 122% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 30,230 EXP to 79,780 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 164%, so the wrong pick leaves 49,550 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 40 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 96,130 EXP per allowance, 20% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 30 rung behind tops out at 72,430 EXP.
At Lv 35 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 61,959 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 378,392 EXP, which puts this leve 42% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 431 gil per allowance is 2nd of 6 on the same rung against 5th on EXP, with the best there paying 532 gil.
Mugwort Carp ×3 is a Lv 38 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 3 units of raw material and 9 crystals.
Handing that in returns 12,000 EXP and 144 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.