Triplite Ring of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Triplite Ring of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 1 Vitality Alkahest ×1, Titanbronze Nugget ×1, Triplite ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 948 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 28 Wind Crystal, 6 Fire Crystal and 6 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 76 and Alchemist to Lv 73 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Raw Triplite (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Titanbronze Nugget has the widest use: 72 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.