Vintage Kite Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Vintage Kite Shield is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1, Mahogany Lumber ×1 and Siltstone Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totaling 8 units, plus 10 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 514 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Wind Shard, 1 Earth Shard and 1 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 45, Carpenter to Lv 39, Goldsmith to Lv 30 and Leatherworker to Lv 17 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Mahogany Lumber has the widest use: 102 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.