Stonegold Degen

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Stonegold Degen is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Deepgold Nugget ×2, Stonegold Nugget ×2 and Rhodonite ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 41 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,346 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Crystal and 17 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 71 and Blacksmith to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 5 raw materials are gathered, and 2 of them are time-gated: Raw Rhodonite (8:00, 20:00) and Gold Ore (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Stonegold Nugget has the widest use: 90 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.