Courtly Lover's Hood of Casting ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Courtly Lover's Hood of Casting is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Grade 4 Gemsap of Intelligence ×2, Urqopacha Linen ×2, Mastodon Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 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 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

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.

6 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Carnauba Leaf (4:00, 16:00), Urqopacha Flax (6:00, 18:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Thunderyards Silk has the widest use: 120 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.