Rakshasa Ephemeris ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rakshasa Ephemeris is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Evergleam Ingot ×3, Grade 4 Reisui of Mind ×3, Enchanted Palladium Ink ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,875 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Crystal, 8 Wind Cluster, 6 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

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

7 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Azim Spring Water (8:00, 20:00) and Evergleam Ore (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

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