Intricate Silver Brocade ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Intricate Silver Brocade is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Silver Brocade ×1, Silk Thread ×2 and Silver Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 49 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 610 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 23 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 26 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Lightning Shard, 23 Wind 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.

3 of the 4 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.