Hingan Placard (Kura-zukuri)

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hingan Placard (Kura-zukuri) is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Molybdenum Ingot ×4, Hardsilver Ingot ×3, Steel Plate ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 62 units, plus 71 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,194 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,399 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 61 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 27 Wind Crystal, 20 Fire Crystal, 8 Fire Shard and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 68, Blacksmith to Lv 68 and Goldsmith to Lv 56 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 7 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.