Botanist's Dried Herbs

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Botanist's Dried Herbs is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Holy Water ×1 — which resolves to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,090 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Water Crystal and 5 Lightning Crystal.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 52 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 7 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Dravanian Mistletoe (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Holy Water has the widest use: 6 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.