Serpentskin Armguards of Maiming

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Serpentskin Armguards of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Amphiptere Leather ×2, Aurum Regis Nugget ×1, Chimerical Felt ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,478 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 26 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Earth Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 59, Goldsmith to Lv 58, Weaver to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00) and Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 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.