Byakko's Enspirited Codex ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Byakko's Enspirited Codex is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Torreya Lumber ×3, Enchanted Palladium Ink ×2 and True Griffin Leather ×2 — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 46 units, plus 44 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,540 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,508 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 17 Water Crystal, 10 Wind Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 70, Carpenter to Lv 70 and Leatherworker to Lv 70 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00) and Torreya Log (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, True Griffin Leather has the widest use: 77 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.