Gargoyle Sculpture ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gargoyle Sculpture is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×2, Rose Gold Ingot ×1, Cobalt Ingot ×4 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,982 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 37 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Shard, 10 Ice Shard, 6 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 50, Armorer to Lv 43 and Blacksmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 8 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.