True Linen Halfgloves of Striking ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one True Linen Halfgloves of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — True Linen ×2, Grade 3 Reisui of Strength ×1, Palladium Nugget ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 15 distinct raw materials totalling 34 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,052 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,565 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Crystal, 6 Lightning Cluster, 6 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.

10 of the 15 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Gyr Abanian Spring Water (10:00, 22:00), Hingan Flax (2:00, 14:00) 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.