Vortex Couch ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Vortex Couch is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Undyed Felt ×4, Electrum Ingot ×2, Spruce Lumber ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 59 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,875 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 54 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Lightning Shard, 20 Wind Shard, 11 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 50, Carpenter to Lv 50, Weaver to Lv 43 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Spruce Log (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.