Kudzu Cap of Crafting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Kudzu Cap of Crafting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Kudzu Cloth ×2, Durium Nugget ×1, Star Ruby ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,333 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Crystal, 12 Wind Crystal and 5 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 65 and Goldsmith to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 7 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Durium Nugget has the widest use: 142 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.