Azurite Earrings of Aiming

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Azurite Earrings of Aiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Azurite ×3, Durium Ingot ×1, Grade 1 Reisui of Dexterity ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 27 units, plus 37 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,763 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,605 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 29 Wind Crystal, 4 Fire Crystal and 4 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 67 and Alchemist to Lv 63 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 9 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Raw Azurite (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

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