Ala Mhigan Shoes of Gathering ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ala Mhigan Shoes of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Ala Mhigan Burdet ×2, Twinsilk ×2, Kudzu Thread ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 37 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,564 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,713 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Lightning Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster, 4 Lightning Cluster and 3 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.

7 of the 11 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, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.