Bluespirit Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bluespirit Pliers is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Bluespirit Tile ×2 and Manasilver Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 34 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 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Crystal, 7 Wind Crystal and 6 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 74 and Goldsmith to Lv 74 — 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, Manasilver Nugget has the widest use: 83 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.