Chimerical Felt Cap of Striking

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chimerical Felt Cap of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Chimerical Felt ×2, Aurum Regis Nugget ×1, Grade 1 Strength Dissolvent ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 40 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,825 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,705 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Lightning Crystal, 10 Wind Crystal, 9 Fire Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 58, Goldsmith to Lv 58, Blacksmith to Lv 56 and Alchemist to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) 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, Aurum Regis Nugget has the widest use: 185 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.