High Steel Chakrams

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Chakrams is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — High Steel Nugget ×2, Beech Lumber ×1, Koppranickel Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 917 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal and 2 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 61, Carpenter to Lv 61 and Goldsmith to Lv 61 — 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, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.