Bisque Flooring

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bisque Flooring is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Mortar ×4 and Distilled Water ×4 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,345 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Water Shard and 2 Lightning Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 26 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Mortar has the widest use: 140 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.