Star Velvet Bottoms of Casting ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Star Velvet Bottoms of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Grade 3 Intelligence Dissolvent ×3, Star Velvet ×3, Sewing Thread ×2 and 4 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 64 units, plus 72 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,934 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 66 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Wind Cluster, 17 Lightning Cluster, 14 Lightning Crystal and 3 other kinds.

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

7 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 5 of them are time-gated: Chysahl Greens (0:00, 4:00, 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00), Luminium Ore (6:00, 18:00) and 3 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

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