Classical Hoplomachus's Lorica ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Classical Hoplomachus's Lorica is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Golden Silk ×3, Grade 6 Vitality Alkahest ×2, Lunar Adamantite Ingot ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 40 units, plus 50 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,825 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,705 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 44 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Lightning Cluster, 12 Wind Cluster, 8 Lightning Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 90, Alchemist to Lv 90 and Blacksmith to Lv 90 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Double-edged Herb (10:00, 22:00), Golden Cocoon (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, AR-Caean Velvet has the widest use: 136 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.