Chimerical Felt Breeches of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chimerical Felt Breeches of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Chimerical Felt ×3, Grade 1 Vitality Dissolvent ×2, Adamantite Nugget ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 47 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,643 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,855 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 39 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Lightning Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal, 6 Water Shard and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Goldsmith to Lv 56 and Alchemist to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 12 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, Hardsilver Ingot has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.