Nightsteel Frypan ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Nightsteel Frypan is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Nightsteel Ingot ×6, Hawk's Eye Sand ×3, Black Willow Lumber ×2 and 3 others — which resolve to 14 distinct raw materials totalling 74 units, plus 53 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,358 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,414 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 1 recipe nests 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 18 Fire Crystal, 8 Earth Cluster, 7 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 70, Blacksmith to Lv 70, Carpenter to Lv 70 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 14 raw materials come out of the ground, and 5 of them are time-gated: Black Willow Log (4:00, 16:00), Hawk's Eye (6:00, 18:00) and 3 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gold Ingot has the widest use: 184 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.