Oriental Round Table

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Oriental Round Table is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Elm Lumber ×3 and Beeswax ×1 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 602 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 4 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Wind Shard, 1 Ice Shard and 1 Water Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 18 and Alchemist to Lv 10 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Elm Lumber has the widest use: 68 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.