Archaeoskin Breeches of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Archaeoskin Breeches of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Archaeornis Leather ×3, Rainbow Cloth ×1, Rainbow Thread ×3 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,247 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Earth Crystal, 4 Lightning Crystal, 2 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 51 and Weaver to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rainbow Thread has the widest use: 116 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.