Chivalric Doublet of Casting ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chivalric Doublet of Casting is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 10 intermediates — Chimerical Felt ×3, Grade 1 Intelligence Dissolvent ×2, Aurum Regis Nugget ×1 and 7 others — which resolve to 16 distinct raw materials totalling 56 units, plus 54 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,997 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,920 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 51 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 29 Lightning Crystal, 9 Water Crystal, 6 Water Shard and 4 other kinds.

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

11 of the 16 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Abalathian Mistletoe (6:00, 18:00), Gold Ore (9:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 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.