Facet Circlet of Striking ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Circlet of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 2 Strength Alkahest ×2, Prismatic Ingot ×2, Chalicotherium Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,645 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal, 6 Fire Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80, Leatherworker to Lv 80 and Weaver to Lv 78 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Prismstone (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.