Courtly Lover's Pendulums ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Courtly Lover's Pendulums is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Rose Garnet ×4, Grade 4 Gemsap of Mind ×2, Double Duraluminum Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,982 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 44 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Cluster, 15 Wind Cluster, 8 Fire Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 100, Alchemist to Lv 100 and Blacksmith to Lv 100 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Dense Aluminum Ore (10:00, 22:00), Rose Garnet Ore (0:00, 12:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ra'Kaznar Ingot has the widest use: 166 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.