Cloud Axe

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cloud Axe is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Bronze War Axe ×1, Bronze Ingot ×3 and Maple Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 674 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard, 2 Earth Shard and 1 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 9 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.