Goby Ball

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 10 Goby Ball is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Rye Flour ×1 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 531 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 4 intermediate up to the Lv 10 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Rye Flour has the widest use: 6 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.