Serpentskin Gloves of Casting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Serpentskin Gloves of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Amphiptere Leather ×2, Crawler Silk ×1, Grade 1 Intelligence Dissolvent ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,562 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Earth Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal, 5 Lightning Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 59, Weaver to Lv 57, Goldsmith to Lv 56 and Alchemist to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00) 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, Crawler Silk has the widest use: 178 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.