Bladed Steel Jig

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bladed Steel Jig is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×1 and Cloud Mica Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 21 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 764 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 11 Wind Crystal and 10 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 60 and Blacksmith to Lv 58 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and 2 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00) and Darksteel Ore (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Adamantite Nugget has the widest use: 79 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.