Rakshasa Rod ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rakshasa Rod is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 4 Reisui of Intelligence ×3, Evergleam Ingot ×2, Urunday Lumber ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 27 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,763 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,605 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Crystal, 6 Wind Cluster, 4 Fire Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

8 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Azim Spring Water (8:00, 20:00), Evergleam Ore (10:00, 22:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

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