Diaspore Ring of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Diaspore Ring of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Diaspore ×1, Stonegold Ingot ×1 and Hard Mudstone Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 839 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Wind Crystal and 6 Fire Crystal.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 71 intermediate up to the Lv 72 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and 2 of them are time-gated: Raw Diaspore (6:00, 18:00) 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 Ingot has the widest use: 52 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.