Hedge Partition ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hedge Partition is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Growth Formula Delta ×6 and Quicksilver ×6 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,362 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Water Crystal, 6 Water Shard and 2 Lightning Crystal.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Trillium Bulb (21:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Quicksilver has the widest use: 22 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.