Ebony Longbow ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ebony Longbow is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ebony Lumber ×3, Wootz Ingot ×2 and Ruby ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 45 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,451 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,317 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.

2 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ebony Log (4:00) and Raw Ruby (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.