Diadochos Shoes of Striking ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Diadochos Shoes of Striking is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Deinosuchus Leather ×2, Grade 8 Strength Alkahest ×2, Garnet Cotton ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,562 of the 1,844 Leatherworker 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 12 Wind Cluster, 9 Earth Cluster, 8 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 90, Alchemist to Lv 90, Weaver to Lv 90 and Carpenter to Lv 88 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Field Mustard (10:00, 22:00), Lovingbloom (0:00, 12:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Integral Lumber has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.