Linen Wedge Cap of Gathering

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Linen Wedge Cap of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Undyed Linen ×2, Electrum Ingot ×1 and Linen Yarn ×5 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 695 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Shard and 9 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 38 and Goldsmith to Lv 42 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Electrum Ingot is a Lv 42 Goldsmith recipe feeding a Lv 38 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.