Dhalmelskin Breeches of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Dhalmelskin Breeches of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Dhalmel Leather ×3, Ramie Cloth ×1, Wyvern Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,208 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Earth Crystal, 4 Lightning Crystal, 4 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 55 and Weaver to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 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, Dhalmel Leather has the widest use: 106 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.