Byakko Barding ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Byakko Barding is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Chromite Ingot ×3, Palladium Ingot ×1, Tiger Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 49 units, plus 44 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,749 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,059 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Crystal, 10 Fire Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 70, Blacksmith to Lv 70 and Leatherworker to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 11 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Chromite Ore (10:00, 22:00) and Palladium Ore (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

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