Garnet Choker

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Garnet Choker is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Mythril Ingot ×2 and Garnet ×1 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 710 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 11 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Shard and 7 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 37 and Blacksmith to Lv 38 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Mythril Ingot is a Lv 38 Blacksmith recipe feeding a Lv 37 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.