Steel Claws

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel Claws is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Fish Glue ×1, Steel Plate ×1, Walnut Lumber ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 699 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Shard, 3 Ice Shard, 2 Earth Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 29, Armorer to Lv 27, Carpenter to Lv 25 and Alchemist to Lv 10 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Walnut Lumber has the widest use: 128 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.