Wootz Mitten Gauntlets ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wootz Mitten Gauntlets is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Wootz Ingot ×3, Hippogryph Leather ×1, Platinum Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 608 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Earth Cluster, 7 Fire Cluster, 4 Ice Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ferberite (3:00) and Platinum Ore (4:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 23 Eorzean hours, about 67 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Hippogryph Leather has the widest use: 131 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.