Replica Dreadwyrm Armor of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Replica Dreadwyrm Armor of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Gold Ingot ×2, Kirimu Leather ×2, Wootz Ingot ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,081 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 26 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Earth Cluster, 10 Wind Cluster, 8 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 60, Blacksmith to Lv 50, Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Leatherworker to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00), Native Gold (4:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 19 Eorzean hours, about 55 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gold Ingot has the widest use: 184 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.