True Griffin Chestpiece of Striking ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one True Griffin Chestpiece of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Grade 2 Reisui of Strength ×2, Rhodonite ×2, True Griffin Leather ×2 and 4 others — which resolve to 16 distinct raw materials totalling 50 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,777 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,823 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 38 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Wind Crystal, 8 Earth Cluster, 8 Wind Cluster and 5 other kinds.

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

10 of the 16 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00), Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00) and 2 others. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

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