Aesthete's Ear Cuffs of Crafting ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Aesthete's Ear Cuffs of Crafting is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Purpure Bead ×3, Brashgold Plate ×2 and Duskcourt Cloth ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,827 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Cluster, 8 Fire Cluster, 4 Earth Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Brashgold Ore (2:00, 14:00), Duskblooms (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Purpure Bead has the widest use: 43 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.