Indagator's Fishing Rod ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Indagator's Fishing Rod is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Craftsman's Alkahest ×3, Paldao Lumber ×3 and Ilmenite Ingot ×2 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 56 units, plus 58 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,997 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,392 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Ice Cluster, 14 Wind Cluster, 9 Lightning Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 90, Alchemist to Lv 90 and Blacksmith to Lv 90 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Ilmenite (8:00, 20:00), Mornveil Tree Bark (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ilmenite Ingot has the widest use: 73 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.