Exarchic Gauntlets of Maiming ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Exarchic Gauntlets of Maiming is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Duraluminum Ingot ×2, Grade 4 Strength Alkahest ×2, Dwarven Cotton ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 37 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,028 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Earth Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal, 6 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80, Blacksmith to Lv 80, Leatherworker to Lv 80 and Weaver to Lv 78 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Dolomite (8:00, 20:00), Hard Water (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

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