Sky Pirate's Coat of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sky Pirate's Coat of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Grade 1 Vitality Dissolvent ×2, Titanium Alloy Ingot ×2, Amphiptere Leather ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 45 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,451 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,312 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 36 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster and 6 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 60, Weaver to Lv 60, Leatherworker to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Cloud Cotton Boll (0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00), Sphalerite (2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 2 Eorzean hours, about 6 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Titanium Nugget has the widest use: 112 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.