Chromite Spear ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chromite Spear is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 2 Reisui of Strength ×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 1,342 of the 1,552 Carpenter 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 Ice Cluster, 6 Wind Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 70 and Blacksmith 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.