Summertide Formal Shoes ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Summertide Formal Shoes is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cronopio Leather ×2 and Gargantua Leather ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 928 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Earth Cluster, 9 Wind Cluster and 8 Earth Crystal.

Every step is Leatherworker work, from a Lv 98 intermediate up to the Lv 100 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Shaaloani Coffee (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

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