High Mythril Gauntlets

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Mythril Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Mythril Plate ×3, Mythril Rings ×1 and Mythril Ingot ×7 — which resolve to 1 distinct raw material totalling 21 units, plus 54 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 780 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 44 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 28 Fire Shard, 21 Ice Shard and 5 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Armorer to Lv 43 and Blacksmith to Lv 38 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

Its single raw material is gathered, and no spot for it is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Mythril Ingot has the widest use: 135 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.