Riviera Placard

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Riviera Placard is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Iron Plate ×3, Brass Ingot ×2, Elm Lumber ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,196 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 17 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Fire Shard, 4 Ice Shard, 4 Wind Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 19, Blacksmith to Lv 18, Carpenter to Lv 16 and Goldsmith to Lv 14 — 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, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.