Potted Oliphant's Ear ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Potted Oliphant's Ear is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Rose Gold Nugget ×5 and Spruce Lumber ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,435 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Crystal, 3 Water Crystal and 2 Lightning Crystal.

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

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Spruce Log (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.