Ruthenium Folding Fans

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ruthenium Folding Fans is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Ruthenium Ingot ×3, Ihuykanite ×1, Lar Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 79 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,875 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 64 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 48 Wind Crystal and 31 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 93 and Blacksmith to Lv 92 — 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, Star Quartz has the widest use: 157 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.