Glacial Boots ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Glacial Boots is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Rose Gold Nugget ×1, Rubber ×1 and Silk Thread ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 665 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Wind Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal, 3 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50, Goldsmith to Lv 50, Weaver to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 7 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.