Durium Smallsword

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Durium Smallsword is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Durium Nugget ×2, Oroshigane Ingot ×2, Gyuki Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,645 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Wind Crystal, 12 Fire Crystal and 3 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 65, Blacksmith to Lv 64 and Leatherworker to Lv 62 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, 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.