Bluespirit Handgonne

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bluespirit Handgonne is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×2, Manasilver Nugget ×2, Bluespirit Tile ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 55 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,223 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 42 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Crystal, 18 Wind Crystal, 6 Earth Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 74, Goldsmith to Lv 74 and Alchemist to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 10 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.