Tortoiseshell Scale Fingers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Tortoiseshell Scale Fingers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×1 and Cobalt Ingot ×3 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 540 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Shard, 11 Ice Shard and 5 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Armorer to Lv 45 and Blacksmith to Lv 42 — 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.