Bass Ball

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 10 Bass Ball is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Shard and 2 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 7 intermediate up to the Lv 25 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, Sunset Wheat Flour has the widest use: 29 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.