Smaragdine Rapier ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Smaragdine Rapier is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Prismatic Ingot ×3, Alumina Whetstone ×2, Onyx ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,953 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Wind Crystal, 12 Fire Cluster and 12 Wind Cluster.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 76 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Beryllium Ore (4:00, 16:00), Prismstone (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, Prismatic Ingot has the widest use: 79 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.