Carbuncle Chandelier ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Carbuncle Chandelier is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Crystal Glass ×3, Star Ruby ×3, Gold Ingot ×2 and 4 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 47 units, plus 75 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,643 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,033 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 61 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 22 Wind Crystal, 15 Water Crystal, 15 Wind Shard and 4 other kinds.

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

10 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Silvergrace Ore (8:00, 20:00), Gold Ore (9:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 11 Eorzean hours, about 32 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gold Ingot has the widest use: 184 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.