Elm Longbow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Elm Longbow is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cotton Yarn ×1 and Elm Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 4 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 509 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Wind Shard, 1 Ice Shard and 1 Lightning Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 19 and Weaver to Lv 12 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 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, Elm Lumber has the widest use: 68 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.