Wyvernskin Pot Helm of Maiming

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wyvernskin Pot Helm of Maiming is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Wyvern Leather ×2, Archaeornis Leather ×1 and Rose Gold Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Earth Crystal and 6 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 53 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00) and Gold Ore (9:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.