Silvergrace Earring of Slaying ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Silvergrace Earring of Slaying is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Silvergrace Ingot ×2, Grade 3 Reisui of Strength ×1, Opal ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,288 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Wind Crystal, 4 Fire Cluster, 4 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.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gyr Abanian Spring Water (10:00, 22:00) and Silvergrace Ore (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Koppranickel Nugget has the widest use: 124 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.