Aetheryte Ring ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Aetheryte Ring is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Rose Gold Nugget ×1 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 4 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 504 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

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.