Taffeta Shawl ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Taffeta Shawl is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Rose Gold Ingot ×1, Silk Thread ×1 and Rose Gold Nugget ×2 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,065 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Wind Crystal, 3 Lightning Crystal, 2 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 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, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.