Deepgold Wings of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Deepgold Wings of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Deepgold Ingot ×2, Iridescent Silk ×1 and Iridescent Silk Thread ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 660 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Crystal, 6 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

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

All 5 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, Deepgold Ingot has the widest use: 41 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.