Neo-Ishgardian Top of Scouting ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Neo-Ishgardian Top of Scouting is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Duskcourt Cloth ×2, Grade 3 Dexterity Alkahest ×2, Megalania Leather ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,681 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 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, 7 Earth Crystal, 6 Earth Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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

5 of the 11 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, Sea Swallow Leather has the widest use: 124 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.