Cobalt Tungsten Alembic

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Tungsten Alembic is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cobalt Tungsten Ingot ×3, Pink Beryl ×1 and Annite Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 55 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 922 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal, 16 Wind Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 95, Blacksmith to Lv 94 and Goldsmith to Lv 94 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 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, Cobalt Tungsten Ingot has the widest use: 105 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.