Griffin Talon Needle

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Griffin Talon Needle is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×1, Birch Lumber ×1 and Cloud Mica Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 948 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Crystal, 5 Fire Crystal, 2 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 58 and Carpenter to Lv 58 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00) and Darksteel Ore (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Adamantite Nugget has the widest use: 79 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.