Eikon Leather Breeches of Fending ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Eikon Leather Breeches of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Eikon Leather ×3, Grade 1 Vitality Dissolvent ×3, Aurum Regis Nugget ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 44 units, plus 46 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,337 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,797 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 41 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Earth Cluster, 10 Wind Cluster, 9 Lightning Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Frost Cotton Boll (6:00, 18:00), Wattle Bark (2:00, 14:00) 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.