Molybdenum Longblade

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Molybdenum Longblade is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Molybdenum Ingot ×3, Beetle Glue ×1, Durium Nugget ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,266 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 29 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 4 Water Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 68, Alchemist to Lv 64 and Goldsmith to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 10 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

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