True Griffin Breeches of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one True Griffin Breeches of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — True Griffin Leather ×3, Grade 2 Reisui of Vitality ×2, Chromite Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,785 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Earth Cluster, 8 Wind Cluster, 5 Fire Crystal and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 70, Blacksmith to Lv 70 and Weaver to Lv 68 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00) and Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Chromite Ingot has the widest use: 121 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.