Innocence Barding ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Innocence Barding is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Mythrite Ingot ×2, Dwarven Cotton ×1, Stonegold Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 125 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,081 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 100 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 50 Earth Crystal, 50 Ice Crystal, 12 Fire Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 80, Weaver to Lv 78, Goldsmith to Lv 72 and Blacksmith to Lv 52 — 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: Gold Ore (9:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.