Smilodonskin Choker

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Smilodonskin Choker is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Smilodon Leather ×2, Bright Linen Yarn ×1 and Stonegold Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 958 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Earth Crystal, 11 Wind Crystal and 3 Lightning Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 71, Goldsmith to Lv 71 and Weaver to Lv 71 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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