Teak Choker of Fending ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Teak Choker of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Diamond ×1, Gold Ingot ×1, Grade 3 Vitality Dissolvent ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,116 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Wind Cluster, 6 Ice Cluster, 6 Lightning Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

6 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 6 of them are time-gated: Star Cotton Boll (4:00, 16:00), Teak Log (0:00, 12:00) and 4 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.