Windswept Barding ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Windswept Barding is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Chondrite Ingot ×2, Golden Silk ×2 and Amynodon Leather ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,578 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,562 of the 1,844 Leatherworker 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 Fire Crystal, 12 Wind Cluster, 6 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 90, Weaver to Lv 90 and Blacksmith to Lv 88 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Golden Cocoon (8:00, 20:00) and Rime Dolomite (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Chondrite Ingot has the widest use: 210 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.