Pixie Cotton Brais of Scouting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pixie Cotton Brais of Scouting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Atrociraptor Leather ×2, Grade 1 Dexterity Alkahest ×2, Pixie Cotton ×2 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 51 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,468 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 38 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 22 Lightning Crystal, 14 Earth Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Weaver to Lv 75, Leatherworker to Lv 74, Alchemist to Lv 73 and Goldsmith to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 10 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.