Ra'Kaznar Daggers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ra'Kaznar Daggers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Ra'Kaznar Ingot ×3, Black Star ×1, Pink Beryl ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 80 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,369 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 64 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 32 Fire Crystal, 24 Wind Crystal, 16 Water Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 99, Goldsmith to Lv 98 and Alchemist to Lv 95 — 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, Ra'Kaznar Ingot has the widest use: 166 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.