Deepgold Daggers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Deepgold Daggers is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Deepgold Ingot ×3, Beetle Glue ×1, Electrum Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 45 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,152 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 33 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Crystal, 6 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 72, Goldsmith to Lv 72 and Alchemist to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.