Riviera Fence ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Riviera Fence is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×35, Cobalt Rivets ×15 and Mahogany Lumber ×15 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 150 units, plus 377 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,530 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,927 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 52 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 325 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 278 Fire Shard, 75 Wind Shard and 24 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 50 and Carpenter to Lv 39 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

All 3 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.