Grade 3 Intelligence Alkahest ★★★

Nothing in this list is craftable in turn, so a batch of 3 Grade 3 Intelligence Alkahest is a single step: 6 units of material drawn from 4 base items, plus 4 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 917 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 9,374 recipes nest deeper.

2 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Imperial Fern (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Grade 3 Intelligence Alkahest is itself consumed by 12 further recipes, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.