Arachne Gaskins of Striking ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Arachne Gaskins of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Arachne Velveteen ×5, Cashmere Cloth ×1, Hippogryph Leather ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 34 units, plus 37 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,052 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,565 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 33 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Wind Cluster, 14 Lightning Cluster, 3 Earth Crystal and 3 other kinds.

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

4 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Platinum Ore (4:00) and Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 21 Eorzean hours, about 61 real-world minutes.

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