Blissful Barding ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Blissful Barding is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Azurite ×2, Palladium Nugget ×2, Twinsilk ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 34 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,052 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,771 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Wind Crystal, 12 Lightning Crystal, 2 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 70 and Weaver to Lv 68 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Raw Azurite (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.