Chivalric Coat of Fending ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chivalric Coat of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Adamantite Nugget ×3, Aurum Regis Nugget ×2, Grade 1 Vitality Dissolvent ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,293 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Crystal, 10 Wind Crystal, 4 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 58, Goldsmith to Lv 58, Alchemist to Lv 54 and Leatherworker to Lv 51 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 5 of them are time-gated: Adamantite Ore (0:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00), Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00) and 3 others. 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.