Potted Maguey

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Potted Maguey is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Growth Formula Beta ×3 and Quicksilver ×3 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,295 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Water Shard and 1 Lightning Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 22 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

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