Wootz Daggers ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wootz Daggers is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Wootz Ingot ×3, Platinum Ingot ×2 and Gold Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 37 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,564 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,403 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 13 Fire Cluster, 8 Earth Cluster and 6 Wind Cluster.

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 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00), Native Gold (4:00) 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.