Ascorbic Additive

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ascorbic Additive is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Coconut Milk ×4 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,223 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 16 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Crystal, 8 Lightning Crystal and 8 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 88 and Culinarian to Lv 84 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 3 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Coconut Milk has the widest use: 14 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.