Vintage Celata

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Vintage Celata is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Bronze Plate ×1 and Bronze Ingot ×2 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 4 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 503 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Shard, 1 Ice Crystal and 1 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Armorer to Lv 38 and Blacksmith to Lv 1 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 3 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, Bronze Ingot has the widest use: 76 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.