Militia Mitt Gauntlets ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Militia Mitt Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×1, Cobalt Rivets ×1, Darksteel Plate ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 660 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 37 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Shard, 6 Fire Crystal, 6 Ice 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.