Militia Ringbands ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Militia Ringbands is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×1, Hippogryph Leather ×1 and Woolen Yarn ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 13 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 598 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Earth Crystal, 3 Fire Crystal, 2 Lightning Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Weaver to Lv 38 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 4 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, Hippogryph Leather has the widest use: 131 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.