Facet Mail of Maiming ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Mail of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Tungsten Steel Ingot ×3, Grade 2 Strength Alkahest ×2, Dwarven Cotton ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 34 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,052 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,169 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Earth Cluster, 8 Fire Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal 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.