High Durium Pliers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Durium Pliers is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — High Durium Nugget ×3 and Dwarven Mythril Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 46 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 956 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 32 Fire Crystal, 7 Earth Crystal and 7 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 81 and Goldsmith to Lv 78 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 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, Dwarven Mythril Nugget has the widest use: 154 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.