Arcane Arts for Dummies
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 94,280 EXP, the best of the 6 Lv 40 Alchemist tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 63,810 EXP, 32% less.
Across that rung the return runs from 20,000 EXP to 94,280 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 371%, so the wrong pick leaves 74,280 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 45 Alchemist tradecraft leve returns 106,480 EXP per allowance, 13% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 35 rung behind tops out at 72,600 EXP.
At Lv 40 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 72,545 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 560,212 EXP, which puts this leve 30% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 486 gil per allowance is 2nd of 6 on the same rung against 1st on EXP, with the best there paying 637 gil.
Book of Mythril ×1 is a Lv 42 Alchemist recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 10 units of raw material and 22 crystals.
Handing that in returns 9,428 EXP and 49 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Alchemist and Blacksmith.