Militia Pliers ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Militia Pliers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×2, Darksteel Rivets ×1 and Shark Oil ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 529 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 5 Water Shard and 2 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.