Classical Choker of Slaying ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Classical Choker of Slaying is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Amynodon Leather ×1, Grade 6 Strength Alkahest ×1, Rhodium Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,247 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Wind Crystal, 9 Wind Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 90, Alchemist to Lv 90 and Goldsmith to Lv 90 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Double-edged Herb (10:00, 22:00), Rhodium Sand (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Star Quartz has the widest use: 157 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.