High Steel Scale Mail of Maiming

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Scale Mail of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Bloodhempen Cloth ×2, High Steel Nugget ×2, Koppranickel Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Crystal, 6 Lightning Crystal, 3 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 61, Blacksmith to Lv 61, Goldsmith to Lv 61 and Weaver to Lv 61 — 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, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.