Wootz Bhuj ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wootz Bhuj is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Wootz Ingot ×3, Ebony Lumber ×2 and Sapphire ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,369 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Cluster, 8 Earth Cluster, 6 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

2 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ebony Log (4:00) and Raw Sapphire (18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 14 Eorzean hours, about 41 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Wootz Ingot has the widest use: 92 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.