Crested Hood of Gathering ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Crested Hood of Gathering is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Diatryma Felt ×4, Craftsman's Tri-solution ×3 and Cronopio Leather ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 51 units, plus 54 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,830 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,885 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Lightning Cluster, 18 Wind Cluster, 9 Water Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 100, Alchemist to Lv 100 and Leatherworker to Lv 100 — 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: Cochineal Pigment (6:00, 18:00), Cordia Sap (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, Diatryma Felt has the widest use: 50 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.