Wind Silk Wedge Cap ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wind Silk Wedge Cap is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cloud Cloth ×1, Crawler Silk ×1 and Ramie Thread ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 13 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 860 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Lightning Crystal, 4 Lightning Cluster and 2 Wind Cluster.

Every step is Weaver work, from a Lv 54 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Cloud Cotton Boll (0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00) and Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Crawler Silk has the widest use: 178 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.