Raging Vortex Couch ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Raging Vortex Couch is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Electrum Ingot ×2, Spruce Lumber ×2, Tourmaline ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 44 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,953 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Shard, 16 Wind Crystal, 6 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

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

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00) and Spruce Log (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

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