Codex of the True Griffin ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Codex of the True Griffin is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Grade 2 Reisui of Mind ×3, True Griffin Leather ×2, Enchanted Palladium Ink ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,489 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Cluster, 5 Water Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 5 other kinds.

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

9 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.