Frontier Ribbon ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Frontier Ribbon is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Saffron Cloth ×3 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 977 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Lightning Cluster, 9 Wind Cluster, 7 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

Every step is Weaver work, from a Lv 80 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

1 of the 3 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Raindrop Cotton Boll (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Saffron Cloth has the widest use: 30 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.