Pragmatism ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pragmatism is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 2 Mind Alkahest ×3, Chalicotherium Leather ×2, Enchanted Dimythrite Ink ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,435 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Water Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster, 6 Wind Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 80, Blacksmith to Lv 80, Carpenter to Lv 80 and Leatherworker to Lv 80 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Sandalwood Log (2:00, 14:00) and Tungsten Ore (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Tungsten Steel Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.