High Steel Main Gauches

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Main Gauches is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — High Steel Nugget ×2, Star Ruby ×2, Beech Lumber ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 34 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,052 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,301 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Shard, 9 Fire Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 61, Carpenter to Lv 61, Goldsmith to Lv 61 and Alchemist to Lv 55 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 9 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.