Glade Path Light ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Glade Path Light is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Ancient Lumber ×3, Darksteel Ingot ×3, Darksteel Rivets ×3 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 64 units, plus 51 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,443 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 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 36 Fire Crystal, 8 Wind Cluster, 4 Ice Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

2 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Scarlet Sap (3:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 22 Eorzean hours, about 64 real-world minutes.

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