Facet Bottoms of Maiming ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Bottoms of Maiming is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Chalicotherium Leather ×2, Ethereal Silk ×2 and Grade 2 Strength Alkahest ×2 — which resolve to 7 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 10 Wind Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster, 6 Lightning Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

2 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Ethereal Cocoon (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Chalicotherium Leather has the widest use: 42 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.