Rose Gold Ear Screws ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rose Gold Ear Screws is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Darksteel Plate ×1, Rose Gold Clasps ×1, Darksteel Nugget ×4 and 2 others — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,755 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal, 3 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 50, Armorer to Lv 50 and Blacksmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Gold Ore (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 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.