Levin Barding ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Levin Barding is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Silk Thread ×4, Rose Gold Nugget ×1 and Saurian Leather ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 788 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Lightning Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster, 3 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50, Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Weaver to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Gold Ore (9:00), Shroud Tea Leaves (2:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 16 Eorzean hours, about 47 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Rose Gold Nugget has the widest use: 179 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.