Gold Spectacles ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gold Spectacles is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Terminus Putty ×2, Clear Glass Lens ×1, Gold Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 907 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Water Shard, 4 Wind Cluster, 3 Wind Crystal and 3 other kinds.

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

6 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Native Gold (4:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 19 Eorzean hours, about 55 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gold Ingot has the widest use: 184 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.