Scarlet Moko Vest of Gathering

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Scarlet Moko Vest of Gathering is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Scarlet Moko Cloth ×3, Manganese Ingot ×2 and Snow Linen ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 64 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,516 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Lightning Crystal, 16 Fire Crystal and 8 Wind Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 87 and Blacksmith to Lv 86 — 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, Manganese Ingot has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.