Star Velvet Tabard of Striking ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Star Velvet Tabard of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Grade 3 Strength Dissolvent ×3, Star Velvet ×3, Cashmere Cloth ×1 and 5 others — which resolve to 18 distinct raw materials totalling 57 units, plus 61 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,047 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,923 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 55 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Lightning Cluster, 16 Wind Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 60, Alchemist to Lv 60, Leatherworker to Lv 60 and Armorer to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 18 raw materials come out of the ground, and 5 of them are time-gated: Morel (4:00, 16:00), Star Cotton Boll (4:00, 16:00) and 3 others. 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.