Rainbow Culottes of Striking

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rainbow Culottes of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Archaeornis Leather ×2, Rainbow Cloth ×2, Rainbow Thread ×5 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,219 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Lightning Crystal, 6 Earth Crystal, 2 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 51 and Leatherworker to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 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, Rainbow Thread has the widest use: 116 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.