Rarefied Rainbow Bolero

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Rainbow Bolero is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Rainbow Cloth ×2, Archaeornis Leather ×1, Electrum Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 20 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,876 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,022 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Lightning Crystal, 5 Wind Shard, 3 Earth Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 51, Leatherworker to Lv 51 and Goldsmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Rainbow Cloth is a Lv 51 Weaver recipe feeding a Lv 50 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.