Exarchic Top of Striking ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Exarchic Top of Striking is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Duraluminum Ingot ×2, Grade 4 Strength Alkahest ×2, Saffron Cloth ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 37 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,564 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,651 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 37 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Lightning Cluster, 9 Wind Cluster, 7 Earth Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 80, Alchemist to Lv 80, Blacksmith to Lv 80 and Leatherworker to Lv 78 — 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: Dolomite (8:00, 20:00), Hard Water (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.