Chromite Daggers ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chromite Daggers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Chromite Ingot ×3, Grade 2 Reisui of Dexterity ×3, Palladium Ingot ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 59 units, plus 48 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,079 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,790 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 44 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Crystal, 10 Fire Cluster, 8 Earth Cluster and 5 other kinds.

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

10 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00), Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.