Aurum Regis Earrings of Gathering ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Aurum Regis Earrings of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Aurum Regis Ingot ×2, Astral Oil ×1 and Aurum Regis Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 16 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,234 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Wind Crystal, 4 Fire Cluster, 4 Wind Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 60 and Alchemist to Lv 60 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 5 of them are time-gated: Astral Moraine (0:00, 12:00), Aurum Regis Ore (2:00, 14:00) and 3 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 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.