Wootz Spear ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wootz Spear is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ebony Lumber ×3, Wootz Ingot ×2 and Gold Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 46 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,540 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,328 of the 1,552 Carpenter 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 10 Wind Cluster, 8 Ice Cluster, 5 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

3 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Ebony Log (4:00), Gold Ore (9:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 19 Eorzean hours, about 55 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gold Ingot has the widest use: 184 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.