Dalmascan Draped Bottoms ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Dalmascan Draped Bottoms is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Ethereal Silk ×2 and Sea Swallow Leather ×2 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 36 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,178 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Earth Crystal, 7 Lightning Crystal, 7 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

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

2 of the 5 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, Sea Swallow Leather has the widest use: 124 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.