Sephirotic Barding ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sephirotic Barding is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Star Ruby ×2, Star Sapphire ×1 and Basilisk Whetstone ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 892 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Wind Shard, 12 Wind Crystal, 2 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 60 and Goldsmith to Lv 55 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Basilisk Whetstone has the widest use: 55 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.