Molybdenum Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Molybdenum Pliers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Molybdenum Ingot ×3, Tama-hagane Ingot ×1 and Oroshigane Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,021 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Fire Crystal and 5 Earth Crystal.

Every step is Blacksmith work, from a Lv 64 intermediate up to the Lv 70 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 5 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.