Indigo Ramie Robe of Casting ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Indigo Ramie Robe of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Rhea Cloth ×3, Grade 2 Reisui of Intelligence ×2, Triphane ×2 and 4 others — which resolve to 16 distinct raw materials totalling 55 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,983 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,914 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 11 Wind Crystal, 10 Lightning Cluster, 10 Wind Cluster and 3 other kinds.

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

12 of the 16 raw materials come out of the ground, and 4 of them are time-gated: Hallowed Basil (6:00, 18:00), Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00) and 2 others. 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.