Word of the Fiend ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Word of the Fiend is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Eikon Iron Ingot ×2, Eikon Leather ×2, Enchanted Aurum Regis Ink ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 14 distinct raw materials totalling 52 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,890 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,540 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 38 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Wind Cluster, 7 Water Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster and 4 other kinds.

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

7 of the 14 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Old-growth Camphorwood Log (8:00, 20:00), Smithsonite Ore (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Eikon Iron Ingot has the widest use: 140 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.