Hi-Elixir ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Hi-Elixir is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Growth Formula Delta ×1 and Quicksilver ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 980 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Thavnairian Mistletoe (17:00) and Trillium Bulb (21:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 20 Eorzean hours, about 58 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Quicksilver has the widest use: 22 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.