Palladium Staff ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Palladium Staff is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 2 Reisui of Intelligence ×3, Palladium Ingot ×3, Azurite ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 52 units, plus 44 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,890 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,082 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Cluster, 8 Fire Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

9 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00), Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

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