Forgemaster's Gloves ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Forgemaster's Gloves is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Griffin Leather ×3, Aurum Regis Nugget ×1 and Crawler Silk ×1 — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,336 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Lightning Crystal, 5 Wind Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Goldsmith to Lv 58 and Weaver to Lv 57 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Red Alumen (10:00, 22:00), Wattle Bark (2:00, 14:00) 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.