High Steel Bayonet

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Bayonet is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — High Steel Ingot ×2, Koppranickel Ingot ×1, Larch Lumber ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,210 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal and 3 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 63, Carpenter to Lv 62 and Goldsmith to Lv 62 — 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.