Growth Formula Alpha

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Growth Formula Alpha is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Quicksilver ×1 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 2 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 746 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Water Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 3 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 3 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Growth Formula Alpha is itself consumed by 5 further recipes, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.