Deepgold Scythe

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Deepgold Scythe is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Deepgold Nugget ×2, Hard Mudstone Whetstone ×1 and White Oak Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 757 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 12 Wind Crystal and 5 Earth Crystal.

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

All 4 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 Nugget has the widest use: 55 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.