Stuffed Mazlaya Marlin ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Stuffed Mazlaya Marlin is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×2 and Zircon ×2 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 21 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,233 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 16 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Shard, 6 Fire Crystal, 3 Water Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.