Sky Pirate's Gauntlets of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sky Pirate's Gauntlets of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Titanium Alloy Ingot ×2, Amphiptere Leather ×1, Grade 1 Vitality Dissolvent ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 37 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,564 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,233 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Sphalerite (2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00) and Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

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