Warrior's Stew

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Warrior's Stew is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Algae Salt ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 16 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 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard, 5 Fire Crystal and 4 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 62 intermediate up to the Lv 66 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 6 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, Algae Salt has the widest use: 10 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.