Connoisseur's Samurai Blade ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Connoisseur's Samurai Blade is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Oroshigane Ingot ×1 and Pewter Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 674 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Crystal, 4 Fire Cluster, 4 Fire Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 90 and Goldsmith to Lv 82 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Oroshigane Ingot has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.