Herald of Legend ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Herald of Legend is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Octahedrite Nugget ×2 and Rhodochrosite ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,074 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster and 6 Wind Cluster.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 100 and Blacksmith to Lv 100 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Octahedrite (10:00, 22:00) and Raw Rhodochrosite (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Octahedrite Nugget has the widest use: 67 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.