Shower Stand ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Shower Stand is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×6, Rosewood Lumber ×2 and Wolfram Ingot ×2 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 51 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,196 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Fire Shard, 12 Wind Shard, 6 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Carpenter to Lv 45 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Ferberite (3:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.