Replica Dreadwyrm Coronet of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Replica Dreadwyrm Coronet of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Platinum Ingot ×3, Gold Ingot ×2 and Wootz Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 46 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,540 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,009 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Cluster, 12 Wind Cluster and 2 Earth Cluster.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 60 and Blacksmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00), Native Gold (4:00) and 1 other. 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.