Potted Dragon Tree ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Potted Dragon Tree is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×4 and Spruce Lumber ×4 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,362 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 12 Wind Crystal, 3 Water Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Carpenter to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Spruce Log (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.