Neo-Ishgardian Bottoms of Maiming ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Neo-Ishgardian Bottoms of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Duskcourt Cloth ×2, Grade 3 Strength Alkahest ×2, Megalania Leather ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,597 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.

5 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Ashen Alumen (10:00, 22:00), Duskblooms (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

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