Cobalt Preserves

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Preserves is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Boar Leather ×1, Clear Glass Lens ×1, Cobalt Plate ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 839 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 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, 5 Ice Shard, 5 Water Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 44, Armorer to Lv 43, Blacksmith to Lv 42, Leatherworker to Lv 33 and Alchemist to Lv 28 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 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.