Pine Fishing Rod

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pine Fishing Rod is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Pine Lumber ×2, Durium Nugget ×1, Ruby Cotton Cloth ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 692 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Wind Crystal, 4 Ice Crystal and 3 Lightning Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 65, Goldsmith to Lv 64 and Weaver to Lv 62 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 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, Durium Nugget has the widest use: 142 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.