Silver Brocade ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Silver Brocade is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Silk Thread ×2 and Silver Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 495 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 21 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Wind Shard, 11 Lightning Shard and 3 Lightning Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 50 and Goldsmith to Lv 23 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Silver Brocade is itself consumed by 1 further recipe, all of them Weaver recipes.