Ala Mhigan Gloves of Crafting ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ala Mhigan Gloves of Crafting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Ala Mhigan Burdet ×2, Twinsilk ×2, Kudzu Thread ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 28 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 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Lightning Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster, 4 Lightning Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Azim Cotton Boll (0:00, 12:00), Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Twinthread has the widest use: 109 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.