Blue Zircon Earrings of Casting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Blue Zircon Earrings of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Blue Zircon ×2, Grade 5 Intelligence Alkahest ×1, Manganese Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 64 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,507 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Wind Crystal, 16 Fire Crystal and 8 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 87, Blacksmith to Lv 86 and Alchemist to Lv 83 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Manganese Ingot has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.