High Steel Awl

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Awl is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — High Steel Ingot ×2, Bloodhempen Cloth ×1, Larch Lumber ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,087 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal, 3 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 62, Carpenter to Lv 62 and Weaver to Lv 61 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 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, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.