Eikon Leather Thighboots of Scouting ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Eikon Leather Thighboots of Scouting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Eikon Leather ×2, Grade 1 Dexterity Dissolvent ×2, Crawler Silk ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 37 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,564 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,713 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 33 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Earth Cluster, 8 Wind Cluster, 7 Lightning Cluster and 4 other kinds.

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

9 of the 13 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, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.