Rakshasa Lance ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rakshasa Lance is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 4 Reisui of Strength ×3, Chigusa Ingot ×2, Urunday Lumber ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,210 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Fire Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster, 4 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

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

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Azim Spring Water (8:00, 20:00), Gyr Abanian Ore (0:00, 12:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

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