Bluespirit Grimoire

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bluespirit Grimoire is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Bluespirit Tile ×2, Enchanted Manasilver Ink ×1, Manasilver Nugget ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 53 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,345 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Crystal, 14 Water Crystal, 14 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

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

9 of the 10 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, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.