Rarefied Star Quartz Choker

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Star Quartz Choker is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Star Quartz ×2, Chondrite Ingot ×1 and Annite Whetstone ×3 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 64 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,346 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 48 Wind Crystal and 16 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 89 and Blacksmith to Lv 88 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Chondrite Ingot has the widest use: 210 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.