Red Pine Cane

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Red Pine Cane is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Phrygian Gold Ingot ×2, Red Pine Lumber ×2, Chloroschist Whetstone ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 63 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,086 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 48 Wind Crystal, 8 Lightning Crystal and 7 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 84, Goldsmith to Lv 84 and Weaver to Lv 84 — 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, Phrygian Gold Ingot has the widest use: 82 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.