Titanium Vambraces of Striking

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Titanium Vambraces of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Dhalmel Leather ×1, Dragon Leather ×1, Grade 1 Strength Dissolvent ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,196 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Earth Crystal, 9 Fire Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 56, Blacksmith to Lv 56, Goldsmith to Lv 56, Leatherworker to Lv 56 and Alchemist to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Hardsilver Ingot has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.