Heavy Metal Sabatons of Maiming ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Heavy Metal Sabatons of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Grade 3 Strength Dissolvent ×2, Heavy Metal Ingot ×2, Griffin Leather Strap ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 16 distinct raw materials totalling 51 units, plus 63 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,830 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,355 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 57 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Fire Cluster, 15 Earth Cluster, 7 Earth Crystal and 5 other kinds.

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

8 of the 16 raw materials come out of the ground, and 7 of them are time-gated: Luminium Ore (6:00, 18:00), Morel (4:00, 16:00) and 5 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Platinum Ingot has the widest use: 176 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.