Gryphonskin Wristbands ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gryphonskin Wristbands is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Darksteel Nugget ×1, Hard Hippogryph Leather ×1, Horn Glue ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 928 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Earth Crystal, 3 Fire Crystal, 3 Water Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 30 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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