Diadochos Cane ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Diadochos Cane is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Softsilver Ingot ×3, Grade 8 Mind Alkahest ×2, Spodumene ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 47 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,643 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,033 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 44 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Cluster, 9 Earth Cluster, 9 Wind Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Lovingbloom (0:00, 12:00), Raw Spodumene (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Chondrite Ingot has the widest use: 210 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.