Cobalt Bladed Lantern Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Bladed Lantern Shield is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×1 and Cobalt Ingot ×4 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 37 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Shard, 11 Ice Shard and 6 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Armorer to Lv 49 and Blacksmith to Lv 42 — 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.