Gordian Chair ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gordian Chair is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×4, Amphiptere Leather ×1 and Aurum Regis Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 37 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,564 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,233 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Goldsmith to Lv 58 and Leatherworker to Lv 58 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 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 1 other. 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.