Bronze Gauntlets

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bronze Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Bronze Plate ×2, Iron Rivets ×1, Bronze Ingot ×4 and 1 other — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 10 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 616 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Shard, 3 Ice Shard and 1 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Armorer to Lv 14 and Blacksmith to Lv 18 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Iron Rivets is a Lv 18 Blacksmith recipe feeding a Lv 14 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.