Mythrite Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Mythrite Pliers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Mythrite Ingot ×2, Linseed Oil ×1, Mythrite Rivets ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,152 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 22 Fire Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal and 3 Water Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 53 and Alchemist to Lv 29 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Mythrite Nugget has the widest use: 102 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.