Replica Dreadwyrm Gauntlets of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Replica Dreadwyrm Gauntlets of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Gold Ingot ×2, Wootz Ingot ×2, Kirimu Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 988 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Earth Cluster, 8 Fire Cluster, 8 Wind 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.