Imitation Stained Crystal Ornament ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Imitation Stained Crystal Ornament is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Crystal Glass ×5, Palladium Ingot ×3, Natron ×5 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 68 units, plus 67 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,264 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,144 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 62 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 25 Water Crystal, 15 Wind Crystal, 10 Water Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 70 and Alchemist to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

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