Reed Scythe

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Reed Scythe is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Chondrite Ingot ×2, Annite Whetstone ×1 and Integral Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 48 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 780 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Crystal, 16 Wind Crystal, 8 Earth Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 90, Blacksmith to Lv 88, Carpenter to Lv 88 and Goldsmith to Lv 86 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

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