Almandine Grinding Wheel

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Almandine Grinding Wheel is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Zelkova Lumber ×2 and Palladium Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 652 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Wind Crystal and 5 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 70 and Goldsmith to Lv 68 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Almandine (0:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.