Root Rush
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 1,330 EXP, which places it 2nd 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, 53% 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 20% above its own category's average.
Growth Formula Alpha ×1 is a Lv 3 Alchemist recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 4 units of raw material and 2 crystals.
Handing that in returns 333 EXP and 29 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.