Ramie Ribbon of Casting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ramie Ribbon of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Ramie Cloth ×2, Grade 1 Intelligence Dissolvent ×1, Larimar ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,333 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Crystal, 7 Wind Crystal, 5 Wind Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 54, Alchemist to Lv 54 and Goldsmith to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ramie Thread has the widest use: 85 recipes call for it, spanning three of the eight crafting classes.