Adamantite Mail of Maiming

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Adamantite Mail of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×2, Chimerical Felt ×2, Grade 1 Strength Dissolvent ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 41 units, plus 36 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,923 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,267 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 33 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Fire Crystal, 10 Lightning Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Goldsmith to Lv 58, Weaver to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00), Darksteel Ore (1:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Aurum Regis Nugget has the widest use: 185 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.