Darksteel Rings ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Darksteel Rings is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Darksteel Nugget ×1 — which resolves to 1 distinct raw material totalling 3 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 407 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Crystal and 3 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Armorer to Lv 50 and Blacksmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

The single raw material is gathered, and it is time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Darksteel Rings is itself consumed by 16 further recipes, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.