Facet Gauntlets of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Gauntlets of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 2 Vitality Alkahest ×2, Tungsten Steel Ingot ×2, Dwarven Cotton ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 988 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Lightning Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster, 6 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80, Blacksmith to Lv 80, Goldsmith to Lv 80 and Weaver to Lv 78 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Prismstone (4:00, 16:00) and Tungsten Ore (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.