Cobalt Baselards

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Baselards is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×2 and Rosewood Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 597 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 16 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Shard, 6 Earth Shard and 6 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 49 and Carpenter to Lv 45 — 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.