Suzaku's Flame-kissed Cane ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Suzaku's Flame-kissed Cane is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Torreya Lumber ×3, Palladium Ingot ×2, Zelkova Lumber ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 54 units, plus 54 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,945 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,376 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 27 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Cluster, 7 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 70 and Goldsmith to Lv 70 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00) and Torreya Log (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

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