Indagator's Boots of Crafting ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Indagator's Boots of Crafting is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Craftsman's Alkahest ×3, Titanoboa Leather ×3 and Bayberry Cloth ×2 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 56 units, plus 58 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,997 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,836 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Cluster, 15 Lightning Cluster, 14 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

3 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Bayberry (4:00, 16:00), Haritaki (0:00, 12:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Bayberry Cloth has the widest use: 60 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.