Serpentskin Boots of Striking

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Serpentskin Boots of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Amphiptere Leather ×2, Crawler Silk ×1, Grade 1 Strength Dissolvent ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,613 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Earth Crystal, 14 Wind Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 59, Weaver to Lv 57, Goldsmith to Lv 56 and Alchemist to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00) and Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.