Agate Ring of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Agate Ring of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Agate ×1 and Basilisk Whetstone ×2 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 5 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,201 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 564 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Shard, 6 Wind Crystal and 2 Fire Crystal.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 40 intermediate up to the Lv 51 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Basilisk Whetstone has the widest use: 55 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.