Lunar Barding ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Lunar Barding is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — True Linen ×3, Silvergrace Ingot ×1, Tiger Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,541 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Cluster, 6 Lightning Cluster, 4 Earth Crystal and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 70, Goldsmith 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: Hingan Flax (2:00, 14:00) and Silvergrace Ore (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Koppranickel Nugget has the widest use: 124 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.