Titanium Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Titanium Pliers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Titanium Nugget ×3, Linseed Oil ×1 and Titanium Rivets ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 956 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Crystal, 4 Earth Crystal and 3 Water Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 56 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, Titanium Nugget has the widest use: 112 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.