Augmented Zelos ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Augmented Zelos is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Tungsten Steel Ingot ×4, Chalicotherium Leather ×1 and Dwarven Mythril Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 41 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,595 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Crystal, 10 Earth Cluster, 8 Fire Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 80 and Leatherworker to Lv 80 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Tungsten Ore (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Dwarven Mythril Ingot has the widest use: 168 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.