Facet Chain Hose of Fending ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Chain Hose of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Chalicotherium Leather ×2, Grade 2 Vitality Alkahest ×2, Ethereal Silk ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,521 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest 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 8 Earth Cluster, 8 Wind Cluster, 4 Lightning Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80, Blacksmith to Lv 80 and Weaver to Lv 80 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ethereal Cocoon (8:00, 20:00) and Tungsten Ore (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Tungsten Steel Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.