On the Drip
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 2,490 EXP, which places it 4th of the 6 Lv 5 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, The Hexster Runoff, returns 6,280 EXP for the same allowance, 152% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 1,420 EXP to 6,280 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 342%, so the wrong pick leaves 4,860 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 10 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 12,030 EXP per allowance, 92% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 1 rung behind tops out at 2,040 EXP.
At Lv 5 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 4,554 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 28,481 EXP, which puts this leve 45% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 139 gil per allowance is 6th of 6 on the same rung against 4th on EXP, with the best there paying 293 gil.
Eye Drops ×3 is a Lv 6 Alchemist recipe, a single step, costing 2 units of raw material and 2 crystals.
Handing that in returns 1,245 EXP and 70 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.