Carbonweave Gloves of Gathering ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Carbonweave Gloves of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Sewing Thread ×2, Pterodactyl Leather ×1, Titanium Alloy Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 928 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 38 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Crystal, 14 Wind Crystal, 5 Earth Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

6 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Sphalerite (2:00, 6:00, 10:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00). 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.