Topiary Chocobo

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Topiary Chocobo is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Growth Formula Epsilon ×3 and Quicksilver ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 27 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,763 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,338 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Water Crystal, 4 Lightning Crystal and 3 Water Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 55 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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