Neo-Ishgardian Cane ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Neo-Ishgardian Cane is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 3 Mind Alkahest ×2, Merbau Lumber ×2, Purpure Bead ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,184 of the 1,552 Carpenter 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 Wind Cluster, 7 Earth Crystal, 6 Ice Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80, Goldsmith to Lv 80 and Leatherworker to Lv 78 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Imperial Fern (0:00, 12:00), Merbau Log (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Sea Swallow Leather has the widest use: 124 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.