Archeo Kingdom Shoes of Casting ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Archeo Kingdom Shoes of Casting is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 2 Gemsap of Intelligence ×2, Purussaurus Leather ×2, Gargantua Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,414 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 Earth Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 100, Alchemist to Lv 100 and Carpenter to Lv 100 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Ipe Log (0:00, 12:00), Nopaliflower (2:00, 14:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Gargantua Leather has the widest use: 89 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.