True Griffin Caligae of Scouting ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one True Griffin Caligae of Scouting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — True Griffin Leather ×2, Grade 2 Reisui of Dexterity ×1, Palladium Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 14 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,681 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster, 5 Wind Crystal and 4 other kinds.

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

9 of the 14 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.