Ra'Kaznar Needle

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ra'Kaznar Needle is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Black Star ×2, Ra'Kaznar Ingot ×2, Acacia Lumber ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 72 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,713 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 56 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 32 Wind Crystal, 24 Fire Crystal and 16 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 100, Blacksmith to Lv 98, Carpenter to Lv 96 and Alchemist to Lv 95 — 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, Ra'Kaznar Ingot has the widest use: 166 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.