Palladium Ingot ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Palladium Ingot is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Palladium Nugget ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 839 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Wind Crystal, 2 Fire Cluster and 2 Wind Cluster.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 68 intermediate up to the Lv 70 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Palladium Ingot is itself consumed by 98 further recipes, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.