Barding of the Dead ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Barding of the Dead is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Octahedrite Nugget ×2, Ra'Kaznar Ingot ×2 and Diatryma Felt ×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 1,120 of the 1,441 Armorer 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, 9 Earth Cluster, 6 Fire Cluster and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 100, Blacksmith to Lv 100 and Weaver to Lv 100 — 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: Cochineal Pigment (6:00, 18:00) and Octahedrite (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Ra'Kaznar Ingot has the widest use: 166 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.