Star Velvet Himation of Casting ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Star Velvet Himation of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Grade 3 Intelligence Dissolvent ×3, Star Velvet ×3, Gold Ingot ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 17 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 60 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,772 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 54 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Wind Cluster, 17 Lightning 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 Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

10 of the 17 raw materials come out of the ground, and 7 of them are time-gated: Chysahl Greens (0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00), Star Cotton Boll (4:00, 16:00) and 5 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gold Ingot has the widest use: 184 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.