Durium Staff

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Durium Staff is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Durium Nugget ×3, Pine Lumber ×1 and Star Spinel ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,288 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Crystal and 4 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 65 and Carpenter to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Raw Star Spinel (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Durium Nugget has the widest use: 142 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.