Serpentskin Thighboots of Striking

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Serpentskin Thighboots of Striking is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Amphiptere Leather ×2, Aurum Regis Nugget ×2, Grade 1 Strength Dissolvent ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,414 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Earth Crystal, 10 Wind Crystal, 4 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Goldsmith to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 53 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 8 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, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.