Flamecloaked Barding ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Flamecloaked Barding is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Bayberry Cloth ×2, Ilmenite Ingot ×2 and Rutilated Quartz ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 36 units, plus 36 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,383 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,629 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Wind Cluster, 9 Fire Cluster, 9 Lightning Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

3 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Bayberry (4:00, 16:00), Ilmenite (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ilmenite Ingot has the widest use: 73 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.