Holy Cedar Wand

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Holy Cedar Wand is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Growth Formula Epsilon ×2, Holy Cedar Lumber ×1, Rainbow Cloth ×1 and 5 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,435 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Water Crystal, 7 Lightning Crystal, 6 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 52, Carpenter to Lv 52 and Weaver to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Dravanian Mistletoe (0:00, 12:00) and Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rainbow Thread has the widest use: 116 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.