Manganese Chocobo Frypan

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manganese Chocobo Frypan is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Manganese Ingot ×3 and Ironwood Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 48 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal, 8 Earth Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 87, Blacksmith to Lv 86 and Carpenter to Lv 86 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 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, Manganese Ingot has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.