Crested Ring of Gathering ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Crested Ring of Gathering is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cordia Lumber ×2, Desert Lapis ×2 and Rhodochrosite ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 36 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,100 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Wind Cluster, 9 Fire Cluster and 9 Ice Cluster.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 100 and Goldsmith to Lv 100 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Cordia Log (0:00, 12:00), Desert Lapis Ore (2:00, 14:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rhodochrosite has the widest use: 47 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.