Imperial Operative Choker ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Imperial Operative Choker is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Rose Gold Nugget ×2 and Hippogryph Leather ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 801 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal and 2 Fire Crystal.

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

3 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.