Steel Jig

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Steel Jig is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Steel Ingot ×2 and Siltstone Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 13 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 742 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard and 6 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 32 and Blacksmith to Lv 26 — 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.