Gryphonskin Thighboots ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gryphonskin Thighboots is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Coeurl Fur ×2, Gryphonskin Knee Pads ×1, Rose Gold Nugget ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,283 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Earth Crystal, 3 Earth Cluster, 3 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.