Deepgold Sickle

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Deepgold Sickle is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Deepgold Ingot ×3, Stonegold Ingot ×2, Hard Mudstone Whetstone ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 54 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,266 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 42 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal, 18 Wind Crystal and 12 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 72, Goldsmith to Lv 72 and Leatherworker to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Stonegold Ingot has the widest use: 52 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.