Comfort Me with Mushrooms
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 126,270 EXP, the best of the 6 Lv 45 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 113,900 EXP, 10% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 54,240 EXP to 126,270 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 133%, so the wrong pick leaves 72,030 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 50 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 343,900 EXP per allowance, 172% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 40 rung behind tops out at 96,130 EXP.
At Lv 45 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 98,250 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 733,026 EXP, which puts this leve 29% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 540 gil per allowance is 2nd of 6 on the same rung against 1st on EXP, with the best there paying 559 gil.
Buttons in a Blanket ×3 is a Lv 49 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 10 units of raw material and 14 crystals.
Handing that in returns 12,627 EXP and 54 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.