Ishgardian Tea

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Ishgardian Tea is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Maple Sugar ×1 and Maple Syrup ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 531 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Fire Crystal, 3 Water Crystal and 2 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 53 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 3 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Ishgardian Tea is itself consumed by 2 further recipes, all of them Culinarian recipes.