Barding of Divine Light ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Barding of Divine Light is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — AR-Caean Velvet ×2, Saffron Cloth ×2 and Thylacoleo Leather ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,376 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 34 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Lightning Crystal, 12 Wind Cluster, 9 Lightning Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 90 and Leatherworker to Lv 80 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Raindrop Cotton Boll (10:00, 22:00) and Wattle Petribark (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, AR-Caean Velvet has the widest use: 136 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.