Cauldronmaster's Gloves ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cauldronmaster's Gloves is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Astral Silk ×3, Aurum Regis Nugget ×1, Crawler Silk ×3 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,541 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Lightning Crystal, 5 Lightning Cluster, 5 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 60, Alchemist to Lv 60 and Goldsmith to Lv 58 — 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: Astral Moraine (0:00, 12:00), Seventh Heaven (4:00, 16:00) 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.