Imperial Jade Armillae of Aiming

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Imperial Jade Armillae of Aiming is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Imperial Jade ×3 and Grade 1 Reisui of Dexterity ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,074 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Crystal, 5 Fire Crystal and 4 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 69 and Alchemist to Lv 63 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 7 raw materials are gathered, and 2 of them are time-gated: Raw Imperial Jade (6:00, 18:00) and Almandine (0:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Grade 1 Reisui of Dexterity has the widest use: 46 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.