Alive and Unwell

One allowance here buys 64,750 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 6 Lv 35 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP — a figure 1 other leve on the rung matches exactly. The best of them, The House Always Wins, returns 72,600 EXP for the same allowance, 12% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 38,850 EXP to 72,600 EXP per allowance — 4 distinct figures spanning 87%, so the wrong pick leaves 33,750 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 40 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 94,280 EXP per allowance, 30% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 30 rung behind tops out at 41,410 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 5% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 462 gil per allowance is 2nd of 6 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 972 gil.

Budding Oak Wand ×1 is a Lv 38 Alchemist recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 8 units of raw material and 16 crystals.

Handing that in returns 8,094 EXP and 58 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.