Topwater Frog

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Topwater Frog is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×1 and Rosewood Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 21 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 643 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 11 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 11 Wind Shard and 10 Fire Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 44, Carpenter to Lv 45 and Blacksmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Rosewood Lumber is a Lv 45 Carpenter recipe feeding a Lv 44 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.