Classical Eques's Headgear ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Classical Eques's Headgear is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 6 Strength Alkahest ×2, Lunar Adamantite Ingot ×2, Chondrite Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,028 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Earth Cluster, 8 Fire Crystal, 6 Fire Cluster and 4 other kinds.

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

7 of the 11 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, Chondrite Ingot has the widest use: 210 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.