Barding of Naught ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Barding of Naught is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Double Duraluminum Ingot ×2, Urqopacha Linen ×2 and Mastodon Leather ×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 12 Earth Cluster, 9 Wind Cluster, 6 Fire Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 100, Blacksmith to Lv 100, Leatherworker to Lv 100 and Weaver 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: Carnauba Leaf (4:00, 16:00), Dense Aluminum Ore (10:00, 22:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 6 Eorzean hours, about 18 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Urqopacha Linen has the widest use: 52 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.