Chiton of Legend ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chiton of Legend is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Diatryma Felt ×3 and Octahedrite Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,219 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Lightning Cluster, 12 Wind Cluster, 3 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 100 and Blacksmith to Lv 100 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Cochineal Pigment (6:00, 18:00) and Octahedrite (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Octahedrite Nugget has the widest use: 67 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.