Saurian Boots of Striking ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Saurian Boots of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Rose Gold Nugget ×2, Terminus Putty ×2, Saurian Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,157 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Wind Crystal, 5 Lightning Shard, 4 Earth Cluster 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 11 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.