Royal Dowager Tea Set

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Royal Dowager Tea Set is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Maple Sugar ×2 and Maple Syrup ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Crystal, 3 Water Crystal and 2 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 52 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Royal Dowager Tea Set is itself consumed by 1 further recipe, all of them Carpenter recipes.