Calibrated Rose Gold Cog ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Calibrated Rose Gold Cog is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Rose Gold Cog ×1 and Rose Gold Nugget ×2 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 801 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 23 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Wind Shard, 21 Fire Shard and 6 Wind Crystal.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 50 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 3 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 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.