Black Star Scarf of Crafting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Black Star Scarf of Crafting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Black Star ×2, Thunderyards Silk ×1 and Magnesia Whetstone ×2 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 56 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,074 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

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

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 100, Weaver to Lv 98 and Alchemist to Lv 95 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 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, Black Star has the widest use: 161 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.