Titanbronze File

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Titanbronze File is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Titanbronze Ingot ×2, Ovim Wool ×1, Ovim Wool Yarn ×3 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 750 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Crystal, 7 Earth Crystal, 7 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

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

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Titanbronze Ingot has the widest use: 63 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.