Facet Brais of Aiming ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Facet Brais of Aiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Chalicotherium Leather ×2, Ethereal Silk ×2, Grade 2 Dexterity Alkahest ×2 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 1,565 of the 1,968 Weaver 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 10 Wind Cluster, 8 Lightning Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80 and Leatherworker to Lv 80 — 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: 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, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.