Glade Placard

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Glade Placard is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Iron Plate ×4, Walnut Lumber ×4, Iron Rivets ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 42 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,044 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,279 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Fire Shard, 8 Wind Shard, 6 Ice Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 25, Carpenter to Lv 25 and Blacksmith to Lv 18 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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

Of the intermediates, Walnut Lumber has the widest use: 128 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.