Sankhara ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sankhara is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 2 Strength Alkahest ×3, Tungsten Steel Ingot ×3, Prismatic Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,266 of the 1,932 Blacksmith 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 10 Fire Cluster, 8 Earth Cluster, 7 Wind Crystal and 3 other kinds.

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

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Prismstone (4:00, 16:00) and Tungsten Ore (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 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.