Bull Hoplon

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bull Hoplon is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Steel Plate ×1, Walnut Lumber ×1 and Steel Ingot ×4 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 616 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Shard, 6 Ice Shard, 3 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 31, Blacksmith to Lv 26 and Carpenter to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 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, Walnut Lumber has the widest use: 128 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.