Designer's Show Window

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Designer's Show Window is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Dwarven Cotton ×7, Ovim Wool ×4, Sea Swallow Leather ×3 and 3 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 68 units, plus 182 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,264 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,942 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 56 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 126 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 105 Lightning Crystal, 28 Water Crystal, 28 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 80, Leatherworker to Lv 78 and Alchemist to Lv 76 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.