Molybdenum Kite Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Molybdenum Kite Shield is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Molybdenum Ingot ×1, Persimmon Lumber ×1, Tama-hagane Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 694 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 5 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 69, Blacksmith to Lv 68 and Carpenter to Lv 66 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 6 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Oroshigane Ingot has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.