Bronze Scythe

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bronze Scythe is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ash Lumber ×1, Bronze Ingot ×1 and Ragstone Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 529 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Shard, 2 Wind Shard and 1 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 11, Carpenter to Lv 10 and Goldsmith to Lv 6 — 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, Bronze Ingot has the widest use: 76 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.