Diadochos Choker of Fending ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Diadochos Choker of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 8 Vitality Alkahest ×1, Softsilver Ingot ×1, Spodumene ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,562 of the 2,216 Goldsmith 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 Fire Cluster, 6 Wind Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Lovingbloom (0:00, 12:00), Raw Spodumene (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

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