Ruthenium Knives

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ruthenium Knives is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Ruthenium Ingot ×3, Ginseng Lumber ×1, Ihuykanite ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 34 units, plus 71 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,052 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,771 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 56 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Wind Crystal and 31 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 93, Blacksmith to Lv 92 and Carpenter to Lv 91 — 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, Annite Whetstone has the widest use: 96 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.