High House Boots ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High House Boots is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Crawler Silk ×1 and Rubber ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 636 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Lightning Crystal, 2 Earth Cluster, 1 Water Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Weaver to Lv 57 and Alchemist to Lv 7 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.