Personal Astroscope ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Personal Astroscope is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×4, Rose Gold Nugget ×4, Cut Stone ×3 and 3 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 46 units, plus 57 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,540 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,009 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 52 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Shard, 15 Wind Crystal, 9 Wind Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 28 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 9 raw materials are gathered, 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.