Facet Circlet of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Circlet of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Grade 2 Vitality Alkahest ×2, Prismatic Ingot ×2, Deepgold Nugget ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,790 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 36 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Wind Crystal, 8 Fire Cluster, 6 Fire Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80 and Blacksmith to Lv 80 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Prismstone (4:00, 16:00), Raw Onyx (0:00, 12:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Tungsten Steel Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.