Eagle-crested Round Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Eagle-crested Round Shield is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×2, Boar Leather ×1, Cobalt Rivets ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 581 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Shard, 11 Wind Shard, 5 Ice Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 45, Blacksmith to Lv 43 and Leatherworker to Lv 33 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.