Tonberry Wall Lantern ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Tonberry Wall Lantern is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×5 and Electrum Ingot ×4 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,430 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 35 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Shard, 18 Fire Crystal and 2 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). 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.