Doman Steel Awl

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Doman Steel Awl is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Tama-hagane Ingot ×2, Kudzu Cloth ×1, Persimmon Lumber ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 37 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,196 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Fire Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 67, Carpenter to Lv 66 and Weaver to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 6 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, Oroshigane Ingot has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.