Fingerless Darkhempen Gloves of Casting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Fingerless Darkhempen Gloves of Casting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Dark Hempen Cloth ×2, Ametrine ×1, Dwarven Cotton ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 54 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,065 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 39 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 31 Lightning Crystal and 23 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 81 and Goldsmith to Lv 81 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

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