Rose Gold Earrings of Gathering ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rose Gold Earrings of Gathering is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Basilisk Whetstone ×1 and Rose Gold Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 13 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 948 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Wind Crystal, 5 Wind Shard and 2 Fire Crystal.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 40 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 4 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.