Courtly Lover's Choker of Fending ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Courtly Lover's Choker of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Black Star ×1, Grade 4 Gemsap of Vitality ×1, Mastodon Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,273 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Lightning Cluster, 9 Wind Cluster, 8 Water Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 100, Alchemist to Lv 100, Leatherworker to Lv 100 and Goldsmith to Lv 98 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 10 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, Black Star has the widest use: 161 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.