Mythril Magnifiers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Mythril Magnifiers is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Mythril Spectacles ×1, Clear Glass Lens ×2, Mythril Ingot ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totaling 12 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 862 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Shard, 10 Water Shard and 8 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 34, Blacksmith to Lv 38 and Alchemist to Lv 28 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Mythril Ingot is a Lv 38 Blacksmith recipe feeding a Lv 34 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.