Highland Placard

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Highland Placard is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Ramie Cloth ×4, Mythrite Rivets ×3, Titanium Nugget ×3 and 3 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 63 units, plus 61 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,204 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,845 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 50 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 36 Fire Crystal, 16 Lightning Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 60 and Weaver to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 7 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, Titanium Nugget has the widest use: 112 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.