Azurite Ring of Casting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Azurite Ring of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Azurite ×1, Durium Ingot ×1, Grade 1 Reisui of Intelligence ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,074 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Wind Crystal, 4 Fire Crystal and 4 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 66 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.