Titanium Awl

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Titanium Awl is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Titanium Nugget ×2, Dark Chestnut Lumber ×1, Ramie Cloth ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,087 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Fire Crystal, 4 Earth Crystal, 4 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 56, Carpenter to Lv 54 and Weaver to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 6 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.