Dhalmelskin Jacket of Scouting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Dhalmelskin Jacket of Scouting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Dhalmel Leather ×2, Ramie Cloth ×1, Rose Gold Nugget ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,336 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 12 Earth Crystal, 7 Wind Crystal, 4 Fire Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 55, Blacksmith to Lv 54, Weaver to Lv 54 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 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.