Palladium Band of Aiming ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Palladium Band of Aiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Palladium Ingot ×2, Durium Ingot ×1, Grade 2 Reisui of Dexterity ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,875 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Wind Crystal, 6 Fire Cluster, 6 Wind Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

9 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00) and Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Durium Nugget has the widest use: 142 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.