Titanbronze Needle

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Titanbronze Needle is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Titanbronze Nugget ×2, Sandteak Lumber ×1, Titanbronze Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 49 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,234 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 35 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 35 Wind Crystal and 14 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 77, Blacksmith to Lv 76 and Carpenter to Lv 76 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 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, Titanbronze Nugget has the widest use: 72 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.