Doman Iron Kite Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Doman Iron Kite Shield is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Oroshigane Ingot ×2, High Steel Ingot ×1, Koppranickel Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 988 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 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 14 Fire Crystal, 6 Wind Crystal, 4 Earth Crystal and 1 other kind.

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

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.