Flawless Band

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Flawless Band is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Silver Ingot ×1 — which resolves to 1 distinct raw material totalling 3 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 451 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 23 intermediate up to the Lv 25 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Its single raw material is gathered, and no spot for it is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Silver Ingot has the widest use: 157 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.