Palladium Rapier ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Palladium Rapier is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Grade 2 Reisui of Intelligence ×3, Palladium Ingot ×3, Chromite Ingot ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 16 distinct raw materials totalling 62 units, plus 53 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,194 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,131 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 49 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Cluster, 8 Wind Cluster and 4 other kinds.

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

12 of the 16 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 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Durium Nugget has the widest use: 142 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.