Smaragdine Pistol ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Smaragdine Pistol is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Tungsten Steel Ingot ×3, Alumina Whetstone ×2 and Crimson Firesand ×2 — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 51 units, plus 36 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,830 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,731 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Cluster, 12 Water Crystal, 8 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 80, Goldsmith to Lv 80 and Alchemist to Lv 71 — 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: Beryllium Ore (4:00, 16:00) and Tungsten Ore (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Tungsten Steel Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.