Superior Deep-red Enchanted Ink ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Superior Deep-red Enchanted Ink is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Astral Oil ×1 — which resolves to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,168 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 60 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Astral Moraine (0:00, 12:00) and Seventh Heaven (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Astral Oil has the widest use: 12 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.