Hemiskin Brais of Fending ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hemiskin Brais of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Grade 3 Vitality Dissolvent ×3, Griffin Leather Strap ×2, Hemicyon Leather ×2 and 4 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 60 units, plus 76 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,112 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,839 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 70 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Wind Cluster, 15 Lightning Cluster, 14 Earth Crystal and 3 other kinds.

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

4 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Star Cotton Boll (4:00, 16:00), Wattle Bark (2:00, 14:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cashmere Cloth has the widest use: 56 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.