Wootz Faussar ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wootz Faussar is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Platinum Ingot ×3, Wootz Ingot ×3 and Rose Gold Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 49 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,749 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,719 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Cluster, 8 Earth Cluster, 6 Wind Cluster 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 8 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.