Scintillant Staff ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Scintillant Staff is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Scintillant Ingot ×3, Teak Lumber ×2, Sapphire ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 87 units, plus 51 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,435 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,172 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 45 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 26 Wind Cluster, 19 Fire Cluster and 6 Ice Cluster.

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

4 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Luminium Ore (6:00, 18:00), Teak Log (0:00, 12:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Platinum Ingot has the widest use: 176 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.