Adamantite Gauntlets of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Adamantite Gauntlets of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×2, Darksteel Nugget ×1, Dragon Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,153 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Crystal, 10 Earth Crystal, 5 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 58, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Leatherworker to Lv 56 and Alchemist to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00), Darksteel Ore (1:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Darksteel Nugget has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.