Gryphonskin Jerkin ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gryphonskin Jerkin is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Coeurl Fur ×1, Gryphonskin Shoulder Guards ×1, Rose Gold Nugget ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,414 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Earth Crystal, 5 Lightning Shard, 3 Earth Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50, Goldsmith to Lv 50, Weaver to Lv 43 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 11 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.