Bronze Hoplon

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bronze Hoplon is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Bronze Plate ×2, Maple Lumber ×1 and Bronze Ingot ×4 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 616 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Fire Shard, 3 Ice Shard, 1 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 5, Blacksmith to Lv 1 and Carpenter to Lv 1 — 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, Bronze Ingot has the widest use: 76 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.