Arachne Bandana of Scouting ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Arachne Bandana of Scouting is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Arachne Velveteen ×3, Astral Eye ×1, Platinum Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 768 of the 1,968 Weaver 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 12 Wind Cluster, 8 Lightning Cluster, 3 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

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

3 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Astral Rock (21:00), Platinum Ore (4:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 14 Eorzean hours, about 41 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Arachne Velveteen has the widest use: 60 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.