Wolfram Sabatons ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wolfram Sabatons is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Terminus Putty ×2, Darksteel Plate ×1, Hippogryph Leather ×1 and 5 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Crystal, 5 Lightning Shard, 3 Earth Crystal and 8 other kinds.

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

7 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Darksteel Ore (1:00), Ferberite (3:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 22 Eorzean hours, about 64 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Silk Thread has the widest use: 175 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.