Rounded Shrub

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rounded Shrub is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Growth Formula Gamma ×6 and Quicksilver ×6 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,362 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 28 Water Shard and 3 Lightning Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 35 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 4 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, Growth Formula Gamma has the widest use: 31 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.