Imperial Operative Dalmatica ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Imperial Operative Dalmatica is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Silk Thread ×2, Undyed Woolen Cloth ×2 and Woolen Yarn ×4 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 610 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Lightning Shard, 6 Lightning Crystal and 2 Wind Crystal.

Every step is Weaver work, from a Lv 38 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Silk Thread has the widest use: 175 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.