Chondrite Magitek Sawback

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chondrite Magitek Sawback is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Chondrite Ingot ×2, Star Quartz ×2, Ironwood Lumber ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 80 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,335 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 64 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 48 Wind Crystal, 24 Fire Crystal and 8 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 88, Goldsmith to Lv 88 and Carpenter to Lv 86 — 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, Chondrite Ingot has the widest use: 210 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.