Rakshasa Grimoire ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rakshasa Grimoire is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Grade 4 Reisui of Intelligence ×3, Evergleam Ingot ×2, Chigusa Ingot ×1 and 5 others — which resolve to 17 distinct raw materials totalling 42 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,044 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,479 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 35 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Crystal, 5 Water Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 5 other kinds.

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

11 of the 17 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 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.