Sephirot Tree ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sephirot Tree is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Growth Formula Zeta ×5 and Hallowed Water ×3 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,498 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Water Crystal, 3 Water Cluster and 2 Lightning Cluster.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 56 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Abalathian Mistletoe (6:00, 18:00) and Red Quartz (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Growth Formula Zeta has the widest use: 10 recipes call for it, spanning three of the eight crafting classes.