Runaway Barding ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Runaway Barding is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cronopio Leather ×2, Octahedrite Nugget ×2 and Rhodochrosite ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 31 units, plus 36 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 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Earth Cluster, 9 Fire Cluster, 9 Wind Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 100, Blacksmith to Lv 100, Goldsmith to Lv 100 and Leatherworker to Lv 100 — 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: Octahedrite (10:00, 22:00), Raw Rhodochrosite (8:00, 20:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Octahedrite Nugget has the widest use: 67 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.