Heavy Wolfram Sabatons ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Heavy Wolfram Sabatons is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Terminus Putty ×2, Darksteel Plate ×1, Darksteel Rings ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 694 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Crystal, 6 Ice Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal and 5 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 50, Alchemist to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Leatherworker to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00) and Ferberite (3:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 22 Eorzean hours, about 64 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Hippogryph Leather has the widest use: 131 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.