Palladium Circlet of Maiming ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Palladium Circlet of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Palladium Ingot ×2, Chromite Ingot ×1, Grade 2 Reisui of Strength ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 16 distinct raw materials totalling 46 units, plus 41 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,540 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,009 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 37 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Wind Crystal, 8 Fire Cluster, 6 Wind Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 70 and Blacksmith to Lv 70 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

11 of the 16 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00), Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.