Oddly Specific Velvet ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Oddly Specific Velvet is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ovim Wool ×1, Ovim Wool Yarn ×3 and Refined Natron ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 557 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Crystal, 7 Water Crystal and 7 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 80 and Alchemist to Lv 76 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ovim Wool has the widest use: 49 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.