Ala Mhigan Turban of Gathering ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ala Mhigan Turban of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Ala Mhigan Burdet ×2, Twinsilk ×2, Palladium Nugget ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 41 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,923 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,732 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 11 Lightning Crystal, 8 Lightning Cluster, 5 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

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

8 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Azim Cotton Boll (0:00, 12:00), Gyr Abanian Spring Water (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, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.