Elm Velocity Bow

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Elm Velocity Bow is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Ash Shortbow ×1, Elm Lumber ×1, Ash Lumber ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 568 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Wind Shard, 2 Ice Shard and 1 Lightning Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 21 and Weaver to Lv 1 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 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.