Rarefied Cedar Fishing Rod

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Cedar Fishing Rod is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cedar Lumber ×2 and Mythrite Nugget ×2 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 849 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Crystal, 6 Fire Crystal and 3 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 52 and Blacksmith to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 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, Mythrite Nugget has the widest use: 102 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.