Kudzu Coat of Gathering

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Kudzu Coat of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Kudzu Cloth ×3, Azurite ×1, Durium Nugget ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,376 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 18 Lightning Crystal and 13 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 65 and Goldsmith to Lv 66 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Azurite is a Lv 66 Goldsmith recipe feeding a Lv 65 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

All 6 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Raw Azurite (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.