Rakshasa Daggers ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rakshasa Daggers is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Grade 4 Reisui of Dexterity ×3, Chigusa Ingot ×2, Procoptodon Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,223 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 9 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster, 4 Fire Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

7 of the 13 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 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

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