Deepgold Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Deepgold Pliers is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Deepgold Nugget ×2 and Stonegold Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 730 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 6 Wind Crystal and 5 Earth Crystal.

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

All 3 raw materials are gathered, 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, Stonegold Nugget has the widest use: 90 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.