Mercury Rising

One allowance here buys 800 EXP, which places it 5th of the 6 Lv 1 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP — a figure 1 other leve on the rung matches exactly. The best of them, One for the Books, returns 2,040 EXP for the same allowance, 155% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 800 EXP to 2,040 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 155%, so the wrong pick leaves 1,240 EXP of the allowance unspent.

Lv 1 is the lowest rung this data records for Alchemist tradecraft leves, and the next one, Lv 5, tops out at 6,280 EXP per allowance — 208% more than the best available here.

At Lv 1 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 1,110 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 19,656 EXP, which puts this leve 28% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 113 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 5th on EXP, with the best there paying 115 gil.

Quicksilver ×1 is a Lv 1 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 2 units of raw material and 1 crystal.

Handing that in returns 400 EXP and 57 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.