Slothskin Boots of Striking ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Slothskin Boots of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Ground Sloth Leather ×2, Grade 3 Reisui of Strength ×1, True Linen ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,478 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 16 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Wind Cluster, 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 70 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gyr Abanian Spring Water (10:00, 22:00) and Hingan Flax (2:00, 14:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

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