Astral Choker ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Astral Choker is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Astral Eye ×1, Hippogryph Leather ×1, Rose Gold Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 20 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,876 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,141 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal, 2 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Astral Rock (21:00) and Gold Ore (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 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.