Slothskin Thighboots of Scouting ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Slothskin Thighboots of Scouting is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Ground Sloth Leather ×2, Grade 3 Reisui of Dexterity ×1, Nightsteel Ingot ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 14 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,636 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Earth Cluster, 6 Fire Crystal, 4 Wind Cluster and 4 other kinds.

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

8 of the 14 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Gyr Abanian Spring Water (10:00, 22:00) and Nightsteel Ore (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.