Opal Bracelet of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Opal Bracelet of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Hardsilver Ingot ×2, Opal ×2, Dragon Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 56 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,953 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 47 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 43 Wind Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 4 Fire Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 56, Leatherworker to Lv 56 and Alchemist to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Hardsilver Ingot has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.