Aurum Regis Staff

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Aurum Regis Staff is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×2, Aurum Regis Nugget ×2, Carnelian ×2 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 48 units, plus 52 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,691 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,043 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 49 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 35 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Crystal, 4 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Carpenter to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 55 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00), Darksteel Ore (1:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Aurum Regis Nugget has the widest use: 185 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.