Hidemaster's Trousers ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hidemaster's Trousers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Astral Silk ×4, Chimerical Felt ×1, Hardsilver Ingot ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 58 units, plus 46 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,061 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,926 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 42 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Lightning Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal, 7 Lightning Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

8 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Astral Moraine (0:00, 12:00), Seventh Heaven (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Crawler Silk has the widest use: 178 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.