Sephirot Root ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sephirot Root is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Larimar ×8, Growth Formula Zeta ×3, Holy Water ×3 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 60 units, plus 94 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,112 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,557 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 90 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Wind Shard, 32 Wind Crystal, 18 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 60 and Goldsmith to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Dravanian Mistletoe (0:00, 12:00) and Red Quartz (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Basilisk Whetstone has the widest use: 55 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.