Goldsmith's Turban ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Goldsmith's Turban is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Rose Gold Nugget ×2, Rubellite ×1, Turquoise ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 862 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Shard, 9 Wind Crystal, 4 Lightning Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Weaver to Lv 33 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 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.