Wootz Scimitar ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wootz Scimitar is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Wootz Ingot ×3, Platinum Nugget ×1 and Rose Gold Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 22 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 750 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Cluster, 8 Earth Cluster, 3 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Platinum Ore (4:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 19 Eorzean hours, about 55 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.