Chromite Axe ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chromite Axe is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 2 Reisui of Vitality ×3, Chromite Ingot ×2, Torreya Lumber ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 48 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,691 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,712 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 35 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster, 6 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 70 and Carpenter to Lv 70 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00), Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Chromite Ingot has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.