Facet Sandals of Striking ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Sandals of Striking is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Chalicotherium Leather ×2, Grade 2 Strength Alkahest ×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 1,414 of the 1,844 Leatherworker 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 8 Wind Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80, Carpenter to Lv 80 and Weaver to Lv 78 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Sandalwood Log (2:00, 14:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

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