Hardsilver Staff

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hardsilver Staff is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 9 intermediates — Hardsilver Nugget ×2, Holy Rainbow Cloth ×1, Larimar ×1 and 6 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 37 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,738 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Wind Crystal, 6 Lightning Crystal, 6 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 54, Alchemist to Lv 52 and Weaver to Lv 52 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Dravanian Mistletoe (0:00, 12:00). 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.