Carbonweave Vest of Gathering ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Carbonweave Vest of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Sewing Thread ×3, Pterodactyl Leather ×2, Cloud Cloth ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 66 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,636 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 62 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Lightning Crystal, 21 Wind Crystal, 9 Fire Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60, Weaver to Lv 60 and Blacksmith to Lv 56 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Cloud Cotton Boll (0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Titanium Nugget has the widest use: 112 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.