Rakshasa Sune-ate of Fending ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rakshasa Sune-ate of Fending is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 8 intermediates — Chigusa Ingot ×3, Gazelle Leather ×1, Grade 4 Reisui of Vitality ×1 and 5 others — which resolve to 13 distinct raw materials totalling 48 units, plus 47 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,691 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,340 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 43 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster, 5 Earth Crystal and 6 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 70, Alchemist to Lv 70, Blacksmith to Lv 70, Leatherworker to Lv 68 and Weaver to Lv 62 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

9 of the 13 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Azim Spring Water (8:00, 20:00) and Gyr Abanian Ore (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Oroshigane Ingot has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.