Garden Gate

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Garden Gate is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Chondrite Ingot ×8 and Pewter Ingot ×4 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 80 units, plus 160 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,409 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,912 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 64 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 96 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 96 Fire Crystal, 32 Earth Crystal and 32 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 90 and Goldsmith to Lv 82 — 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.