Hardsilver Earrings of Slaying

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hardsilver Earrings of Slaying is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Hardsilver Nugget ×2, Star Sapphire ×2, Grade 1 Strength Dissolvent ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 27 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,763 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,605 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Crystal, 10 Wind Shard, 4 Fire Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 55 and Alchemist to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 7 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 Nugget has the widest use: 88 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.