Imperial Operative Wristlets ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Imperial Operative Wristlets is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Rose Gold Nugget ×3 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 862 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 12 Wind Crystal and 2 Fire Crystal.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 50 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Both raw materials are gathered, 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.