Chromite Greaves of Maiming ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chromite Greaves of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Chromite Ingot ×2, Gazelle Leather ×1, Grade 2 Reisui of Strength ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 50 units, plus 45 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,777 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,350 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 41 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster, 6 Fire Cluster and 7 other kinds.

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

10 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00), Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.