Ceremonial Longcap of Fending ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ceremonial Longcap of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Diatryma Felt ×2, Grade 3 Gemsap of Vitality ×2, Ra'Kaznar Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,408 of the 1,968 Weaver 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 Lightning Cluster, 12 Wind Cluster, 8 Fire Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 100, Alchemist to Lv 100, Goldsmith to Lv 100 and Blacksmith to Lv 98 — 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: Cochineal Pigment (6:00, 18:00), Fulgurite (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, Ra'Kaznar Ingot has the widest use: 166 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.