Bluespirit Sabatons of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bluespirit Sabatons of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Bluespirit Tile ×2, Atrociraptor Leather ×1, Grade 1 Vitality Alkahest ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Crystal, 13 Earth Crystal, 7 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 74, Blacksmith to Lv 74, Leatherworker to Lv 74, Alchemist to Lv 73 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 9 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.