Prickly Pear Juice

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Prickly Pear Juice is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Sanctified Water ×4 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 690 of the 1,058 Culinarian 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 24 Water Crystal and 8 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Culinarian to Lv 98 and Alchemist to Lv 97 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 4 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Sanctified Water has the widest use: 31 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.