Saurian Gloves of Striking ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Saurian Gloves of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Terminus Putty ×2, Rose Gold Nugget ×1, Saurian Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 22 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 958 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Lightning Shard, 4 Earth Cluster, 3 Lightning Crystal and 5 other kinds.

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

6 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00), Shroud Tea Leaves (2:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.