Misericorde Blades ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Misericorde Blades is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Darksteel Ingot ×1, Rose Gold Nugget ×1 and Darksteel Nugget ×2 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 804 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Crystal, 3 Wind Crystal, 2 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

3 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Gold Ore (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Misericorde Blades is itself consumed by 1 further recipe, all of them Blacksmith recipes.