Deus Ex Verbis ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Deus Ex Verbis is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×3, Enchanted Rose Gold Ink ×1, Hippogryph Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,362 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal, 3 Lightning Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50, Leatherworker to Lv 50, Weaver to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 23 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00), Gold Sand (5:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 20 Eorzean hours, about 58 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Silk Thread has the widest use: 175 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.