Rarefied Palladium Needle

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Palladium Needle is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Palladium Nugget ×2, Slate Whetstone ×1 and Zelkova Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,025 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Crystal and 5 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 70 and Carpenter to Lv 68 — 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, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.