Rose Gold Ear Cuffs ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rose Gold Ear Cuffs is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Basilisk Whetstone ×1, Rose Gold Ingot ×1 and Rose Gold Nugget ×3 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,234 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Wind Crystal, 5 Wind Shard, 2 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 40 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

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.