Cashmere Skirt of Striking ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cashmere Skirt of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Cashmere Cloth ×2, Silk Thread ×2, Terminus Putty ×2 and 4 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,468 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Lightning Cluster, 5 Lightning Shard, 3 Earth Crystal and 4 other kinds.

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

4 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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