Cashmere Poncho ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cashmere Poncho is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cashmere Cloth ×2, Crawler Silk ×2, Wolfram Square ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 12 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,516 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Lightning Cluster, 5 Lightning Crystal, 3 Wind Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

4 of the 12 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ferberite (3:00) and Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 22 Eorzean hours, about 64 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Crawler Silk has the widest use: 178 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.