Misericordes ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Misericordes is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Misericorde Blades ×1, Spruce Lumber ×1, Rose Gold Nugget ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,176 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal, 3 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00), Gold Ore (9:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.