Militia Gauntlets ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Militia Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Cobalt Rings ×1, Darksteel Plate ×1, Hippogryph Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 555 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Crystal, 6 Ice Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Leatherworker to Lv 50 — 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: Darksteel Ore (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.