Molybdenum Earring of Slaying

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Molybdenum Earring of Slaying is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Grade 1 Reisui of Strength ×1, Molybdenum Ingot ×1 and Palladium Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,002 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Fire Crystal, 10 Wind Crystal and 4 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 68, Blacksmith to Lv 68 and Alchemist to Lv 63 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 8 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

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