Carbuncle Round Table ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Carbuncle Round Table is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Undyed Woolen Cloth ×4, Boar Leather ×3, Spruce Lumber ×3 and 3 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,333 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 47 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Lightning Shard, 12 Earth Shard, 9 Wind Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 50, Carpenter to Lv 50, Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Leatherworker to Lv 33 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Raw Ruby (18:00), Silkworm Cocoon (1:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 9 Eorzean hours, about 26 real-world minutes.

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